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ARRA Requirement to Collect School-Level Expenditure Data
STUDY LIMITATIONS AND DATA QUALITY ISSUES
Comparing Per-Pupil Personnel Expenditures across All Schools within a District
Number of Districts Included in Within-District Expenditure Comparisons
Comparing Expenditures between Title I and Non–Title I Schools
Comparing Expenditures between Higher-Poverty and Lower-Poverty Schools
Extent to Which Individual Higher-Need Schools Have Below-Average Expenditures
Patterns for Other Expenditure Definitions
APPENDIX A. DATA REPORTING INSTRUCTIONS
General Instructions for This Data Collecction
Requirement to Cooperate with This Data Collection
Definition of School-Level Expenditures to be Included in This Data Collection
Rationale for the Department’s Approach for Meeting the ARRA Requirement to Collect Data on School-Level Expenditures
Specifications for Data Submissions
APPENDIX B. STATUTORY LANGUAGE FOR TITLE I COMPARABILITY REQUIREMENT: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, TITLE I, SECTION 1120A
APPENDIX C. SUPPLEMENTAL EXHIBITS
Chapter 2 DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS: SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE USED TITLE I FUNDS PRIMARILY TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION
SELECTED SCHOOL DISTRICTS USED FUNDS TO SUPPORT A VARIETY OF INITIATIVES, PRIMARILY RELATED TO INSTRUCTION, TO IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES
District Title I Initiatives Were Generally Targeted at the Elementary Level and Included Reducing Class Sizes and Extending Instructional Time
Districts Generally Spent Most Title I Funds on Personnel, but Some Spent More on Purchased Services Than others due to Title I Requirements
VARIOUS TITLE I OVERSIGHT MECHANISMS EXIST, BUT ARE NOT DESIGNED TO YIELD ESTIMATES OF THE FULL SCOPE OF SPENDING NONCOMPLIANCE
Education Monitoring of State Title I Program Implementation
APPENDIX I. OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY
APPENDIX II. SCHOOL DISTRICT PROFILES
Iberia Parish School System
St. Tammany Parish Public Schools
Orleans Parish School Board
Southeast Local School District (Wayne Co.)
Lakewood City School District
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Scituate School Department
Providence Public School Department
North Thurston Public Schools