Below is a document prepared by the Congressional Research Service which estimates the amount of education funding that each school district will receive from certain aspects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment bill. Specifically, this document estimates what each school district in the country would receive under the bill’s program allocations (not including the $79 billion State Stabilization Fund) for Title I ($11 billion), IDEA ($13 billion), and K-12 School Modernization ($14 billion) over FYs 2009 and 2010.
These are estimates only based on available and current data and may not reflect exact allocations that school districts receive when these funds are actually allocated.
Click here to download the CRS data, which was updated on January 16, 2009 »
(PDF, 1.125MB, Prints on 11" x 17" paper)
These are estimates only based on available and current data and may not reflect exact allocations that school districts receive when these funds are actually allocated.
Click here to download the CRS data, which was updated on January 16, 2009 »
(PDF, 1.125MB, Prints on 11" x 17" paper)
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Commonwealths & Districts
Commonwealths & Districts
In looking over the estimates for Arizona School Districts, it is surprising to see that some school districts with severe facility needs are estimated to receive little to no funding, while some of the districts that have new or recently renovated schools are estimated to be receiving several $millions. This makes no sense to have the dollars going where they are not needed. What criteria was used to develop the estimates? It evidently has little or no correlation to the needs. If it goes through as proposed, a lot of money would be waisted or would go unused.
Bill, this money is allocated based on a long-standing federal formula that gives higher funding levels to school districts with larger concentrations of lower-income students. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contains the biggest one-time investment in education ever -– an investment that makes sure we have a competitive workforce as our economy grows.