Formula Fairness Campaign
Title I dollars are the foundation of the federal commitment to closing the achievement gap between low-income and other students. Unfortunately, the current formula for distributing funds has led to less poor districts receiving larger per-pupil Title I awards than their higher poverty neighbors.
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July 03, 2013
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U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee does not advance All Children are Equal Act, but important groundwork was laid to move ahead.
The House Education and Workforce Committee will be considering adoption of the ACE Act on February 28...
The bill to end discrimination in the way Title I funding is distributed has gained two more sponsors, continues to attract attention
The ACE act to end discrimination against most high-poverty districts in Title I funding is at an important juncture. Congressional Representatives need to hear from their constituents that this bill is critical.
The Children's Defense Fund has listed the elimination of number weighting in the Title I formulas as a priority for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The All Children are Equal Act in the U.S. House of Representatives has a new co-sponsor.
Don’t miss commentary by Marty Strange, Rural Trust Policy Director, in Education Week.
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September 28, 2011
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Both the All Children are Equal Act and the Formula Fairness Campaign have new co-sponsors.
A bill introduced this month in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to alter the Title I formulas that are unfair to students in poorer, smaller school districts.
The All Children are Equal (ACE) Act was introduced July 12 in the U.S. House of Representatives by 11 original co-sponsors led by Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA).
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July 14, 2011
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A bill that deals with the impact of number weighting in the Title I formulas has been drafted in the U.S. Congress. The Formula Fairness Campaign gains momentum.
The national non-profit YouthBuild USA has joined the Formula Fairness Campaign as a co-sponsor.
The national non-profit Save the Children is the newest sponsor to join the Formula Fairness Campaign.
Ever wish you had a simple tool to help you explain how the Title I formulas work and why they provide a lot less money to low-income children in some school districts than others? Now you have it.
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March 14, 2011
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The number of organizations that are co-sponsoring a national effort to bring fairness to the federal Title I program continues to increase.
This month, three new organizations became co-sponsors of the Formula Fairness Campaign. Find out how your organization can join the effort.
An analysis of the effects of the “number weighting” provisions of the federal Title I program shows that high-poverty rural districts that are headed by African-American superintendents collectively lost more than $8 million in Title I funding in 2009. These superintendents make up more than a quarter of all African-American superintendents in the U.S. Their districts are losing federal funding to larger, lower-poverty suburban districts...
Competitive grants are an increasingly important part of federal funding for schools. But will they reach the highest-poverty rural schools or enhance equal educational opportunity.
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Formula Fairness Campaign is exploring options for ways to fix the Title I formulas. One option is to use a figure calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics to determine how much college-educated non-teachers make in local labor markets around the country. This figure could be used to estimate the cost of providing an education in each school district. But this method would make things worse for most rural districts.
Districts in richer states that support education get a lot more federal money to improve the education of very low-income students than districts in poor states that provide less funding for schools...
The Rural Trust’s Formula Fairness Campaign has conducted two new analyses of Title I funding that demonstrate how — and why — some districts get less federal support than other districts for each very low-income student. One report shows how districts located in states that spend more on education get more Title I funding. The other report analyzes one option for fixing Title I to make it more equitable for high-poverty school districts, especially those located in rural areas.
In a pointed letter to Congressional leadership, the Children’s Defense Fund makes the case for fixing the Title I funding formulas and changing other aspects of the federal education law…
Check out new developments in the Formula Fairness Campaign…
The unfairness of “Number Weighting,” which shifts Title I funding for poor students from poorer school districts to larger less poor districts, is gaining attention…
The following article was recently posted to the
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RPM will print selected Campaign blog posts. To learn more about the campaign to bring fairness in federal funding for low-income rural students, visit the website, where you can join the campaign and sign a national
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Sign the petition to bringing fairness to the Title I funding formula…
Join the Formula Fairness Campaign to fix what’s wrong about the formula for distributing federal funds for the education of disadvantaged students in public schools.