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      "id": 438846,
      "date": "2015-03-06",
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      "title": "Allocation of Funds Under Title I-A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: H.R. 5 and the State Option ",
      "summary": "The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was last amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB; P.L. 107-110). During the 114th Congress, the House Education and the Workforce Committee considered and reported the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), a bill that would reauthorize the ESEA. H.R. 5 would make several changes to current law, but one issue that has attracted substantial congressional interest is a new option that would be available to states for distributing funds available under Title I-A of the ESEA to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools. In H.R. 5, this option is referred to as \u201cTitle I Portability\u201d and \u201cTitle I Funds Follow the Low-Income Child State Option.\u201d Hereinafter, this option will be referred to as the \u201cstate option.\u201d\nUnder current law, Title I-A grants to LEAs are calculated based on four formulas specified in statutory language. In order to receive funds under each grant, an LEA must meet certain eligibility requirements related to the number and percentage of children (primarily those living in families in poverty) in the LEA. That is, only LEAs meeting specific thresholds are eligible to receive Title I-A funds. Once the U.S. Department of Education (ED) calculates these grants, the grant information is shared with states, which subsequently make adjustments to these grant amounts based on provisions included in current law. After states make the grant adjustments, funds are provided to LEAs, which subsequently make grants primarily to schools with relatively high concentrations of poverty.\nUnder the state option, Title I-A LEA grants would be calculated at the LEA level by ED using the four formulas prescribed by current statute and the grant allocation information would be provided to the states. However, once the grants were calculated, each state would have the option to reallocate the total amount of Title I-A funds that were \u201cearned\u201d by the LEAs in the state using a new formula. States would be permitted to redistribute all of the Title I-A funds received to LEAs based on each LEA\u2019s share of enrolled eligible children. An eligible child would be defined as a child from a family with an income below 100% of the poverty level based on the most recent data available from the Department of Commerce. LEAs would, in turn, distribute the funds received to individual public schools in the LEA based on each school\u2019s share of enrolled eligible children. Under the state option, grants to LEAs and schools would not be targeted based on the number or percentage of eligible children, but rather any LEA or public school that enrolled at least one eligible child would receive a grant. The amount provided per child in poverty would be the same for every child in the state. This would result in millions of dollars moving among LEAs in a given state: LEAs with the highest numbers or percentages of eligible children would receive lower grants per child in poverty under the state option than under current law so that LEAs with lower numbers or percentages of children in poverty could receive the standard state amount per child in poverty, which would exceed their grant amount per child in poverty under current law.",
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