WGU D023 School Financial Leadership

WGU D023 School Financial Leadership Already Passed

• Developmental stages of school finance ✔✔1. local responsibility.
• early grants and allocations (elwood Cubberly)
• Emergency of the Foundation program (minimum program) (Strayer-Haig)
• Refinement of the foundation program (Paul Mort)--flat grants
• Power equalization-basic program
• Shift of emphasis and influence, special needs funding
• Focus on adequacy 1989

Progression of school finance ✔✔~early days--funded totally from local community ~church was school M-F ~local schools built using local tax $ ~Delaware-1st state to use state revenue to build school ~60's & 70's fed laws provide oversite. Title funding ~80's US Dept of Ed became cabinet ~2012 Fed funding still a minority value

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Sources of Funding ✔✔Federal- Title I, II, III via ESEA State- formula funding for equitable pupil spending Local-bond levy funding for buildings

ESEA (1965) ✔✔Elementary and Secondary Education Act Emphasizes equal access to education and establishes high standards and accountability. The law authorizes federally funded education programs that are administered by the states. In 2002, Congress amended ESEA and reauthorized it as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Every Child Succeeds Act ✔✔2014 Obama gave flexibility through waivers for agreement on 4 principles

• common core
• state - developed differentiated recognition
• accountability-recognize student gain
• support

Title 1 ✔✔Provided direct funding for schools with high populations of students from low- income families in the form of additional personnel, materials, and professional development for teachers. 2 / 3

~largest federal assistance program

• formulas for title I (grants) ✔✔1. basic-largest part of funding. <10 and +2% of LEA

population

• concentration-smallest of grants. 15% of 5-17 population or +6500 students
• targeted- goes to dist w/highest % of formula eligible children
• EFIG(Ed finance incentive)-based on efforts to give support based on wealth and per capita

income & degree to which ed expenditures w/in state are equalized

Title I ✔✔Must have HQ teachers, alignment of standards, action for low-performing schools and districts

must have student assessments, determine ayp, report cards

Title 1-student requirements ✔✔assess in grades 3-8 for reading/math & science in 3 levels

assessment results given before start of school year

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