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FOCUS POINT: NCLB Public School Choice Requirements

COMMENT: incentives to serve the disadvantaged


Submitted by Paul Hill Active Panelist  on 10/12/04 2:45 PM

The most important incentive for serving the disadvantaged is extra funding. Federal and state categorical programs are supposed to provide extra funding, but as Marguerite Roza's research shows districts often under-fund poverty neighborhood schools. They do so by allocating the expensive teacher salaries elsewhere and also (unconsciously) favoring schools serving better-of parents in the allocation of central office resources. (See items at <a href="http://www.crpe.org"; target="blank">www.crpe.org</a>).

If money were truly allocated on a per-pupil basis, so that the same amount of money were avalable to educate every student BEFORE the addition of categorical funds, and categorical funds then truly became extra, schools would have financial incentives to serve the disadvantaged. Would current categorical amounts provide strong enough incentives? We'll never know until we try.


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