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Download full textStrange, Marty; Johnson, Jerry; Finical, Ashton – Rural School and Community Trust, 2009
The authors discuss two "weighted" grant formulas intended to better target funding to districts with the highest concentrations of poverty, contending that under weighted grants, undesirable effects can occur, including: (1) Per pupil funding for a Title I student in a large school district is greater than that for a Title I student in a smaller…
Descriptors: Weighted Scores, Grants, Federal Programs, Federal Aid
Emekauwa, Emeka; Williams, Doris Terry, Ed. – Rural School and Community Trust, 2004
Stressed by high poverty levels, a low tax base and low teacher salaries, the East Feliciana School District competes, most often unsuccessfully, with neighboring districts and states, and with a relatively segregated white academy system for qualified teachers and pupil resources. Consequently, at the dawn of the federal government's landmark…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, School Districts, Teacher Salaries
Direct linkJimerson, Lorna – Rural School and Community Trust, 2004
The report has three sections. The first section is a chart that examines each of the 12 policy areas and describes its significance for rural schools. For each area, the most "rural-sensitive" position has been identified. The second section examines how each of these 12 policy areas is treated in the NCLB plan for 15 of the most "rural" states.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accountability, Rural Schools, Data Analysis
