Title I Funding. Poor Children Benefit Though Funding Per Poor Child Differs.

摘要

Title I is the largest federal program supporting elementary and secondary education and with annual expenditures of about $8 billion, accounts for about 3 percent of total education expenditures nationally. While state and local funds account for over 90 percent of national education expenditures, Title I is an important source of funding for many high-poverty districts and schools. Created in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty, Title I is designed to help educate disadvantaged childrenthose with low academic achievement attending schools serving high-poverty areas. The amount of funds schools receive is the result of a multistep process that combines formula calculations and state and district decisions. States receive funding for their districts from the U.S. Department of Education (Education), which calculates how much states school districts are entitled to based on their numbers of children from low-income families (poor children) as measured by Census Bureau data and their states per-pupil education expenditures (a proxy intended to reflect cost differences among states in providing education).