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A Million Dollar Difference
The Loophole That Keeps High-Poverty Schools from Getting Equitable Resources
Video explains what the Title I comparability loophole is and how it keeps high-poverty schools from getting the equitable resources they deserve.
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This year, Congress will renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Its most important provision is Title I, Part A—but it has a dangerous loophole.
For more information, see:
- Pulling Back the Curtain: Promoting Fiscal Equity and Providing All Students with Access to Effective Teachers Will Not Require Forcible Re-assignment
- Lifting the Fog of Averages: Enacting and Implementing California’s Requirement to Report Actual Per Pupil Expenditures School by School
- Comparable, Schmomparable:Evidence of Inequity in the Allocation of Funds for Teacher Salary Within California’s Public School Districts
- Walking the Talk: Closing the Comparability Requirement Loophole in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Bitter Pill, Better Formula: Toward a Single, Fair, and Equitable Formula for ESEA Title I, Part A
- Spoonful of Sugar: An Equity Fund to Facilitate a Single, Fair, and Equitable Formula for ESEA Title I, Part A
- Secret Recipes Revealed: Demystifying the Title I, Part A Funding Formulas
- Interactive Graphic: Title I Education Spending: How Title I, Part A Apportions Education Funding to the States
- Interactive Map: Title I Education Grants: Funding Formulas Create Unfair Allocations
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