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HEHS-94-190R 1 (1994-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackow0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-257503 June 7, 1994 The Honorable Thad Cochran United States Senate The Honorable Jeff Bingaman United States Senate The Senate is considering a new formula for distributing federal assistance for the educationally disadvantaged under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act amendments of 1994. The new formula, described in Senate bill S. 1513, would distribute federal aid for the educationally disadvantaged on the basis of four factors. In response to your request, this letter provides our views of these four factors in light of the program's objective to target funds to children with the greatest need. Under S. 1513, funds would be allocated under one formula, which contains four factors: The first is a weighted measure of poor children that serves as a proxy for the number of educationally disadvantaged children. The weighting scheme provides a higher per child allocation to school districts in counties with high poverty rates and high numbers of children in poverty. The second is a state average per pupil expenditure factor, a measure of total state and local spending on education per pupil, that serves as a proxy for state costs of providing chapter 1 services.1 Under current law, this factor cannot exceed 120 percent or fall below 80 percent of the U.S. average. Under S. 1513, this factor would range between 115 and 85 percent of the average per pupil expenditure in the United States. The third is an effort bonus based on state per pupil spending expressed as a percentage of state income, which is a proxy for the level of effort the state 'Under S. 1513, chapter 1 is redesignated as title I. GAO/HEHS-94-190R Title I Formula in S. 1513

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