more than 13,000 districts across the country, and found that nearly half of all high-poverty schools receive at least 10% less funding than the average amount of funding for schools in their district. This is despite the fact that high poverty schools are generally more expensive to operate. Title 1 funds that are no longer an additional source of funding for students who are less fortunate because their original intentions. In countries such as North Carolina, they were used to fill budget gaps by contrast.
According to reports, the principal difference is the level of funding is different that the teachers are paid in different schools. Many countries, including North Carolina, providing funding for a number of teaching positions in each school and then pay that amount of salary for each school, regardless of how much salaries can vary from school to school. High poverty schools tend to have teachers who are less experienced and have teaching credentials and are therefore paid less; the high school of wealth tend to have the most experienced and highly credentialed teachers who were paid more. Perversely, high poverty schools receive less money for high school teachers than wealth.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to believe one way to overcome this problem is to close the "loophole comparability point" in primary and secondary education Act (ESEA) requires that the District provides high poverty schools share the same State and local dollars as other schools before the district can be title I dollars for disadvantaged students. Currently stalled bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the USA ESEA, sponsored by Sens. Tom Harkin and Russ Cochran, including language that is designed to close this gap.
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