School Districts Use of Funds: Analyses of Expenditures and Income Factors ( Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World )

Publication series :Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World

Author: Richard I. James;Ryan A. Migne  

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781620813249

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781620812969

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Language: ENG

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School Districts Use of Funds: Analyses of Expenditures and Income Factors

Chapter

ARRA Requirement to Collect School-Level Expenditure Data

Study Design

STUDY LIMITATIONS AND DATA QUALITY ISSUES

KEY FINDINGS

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

CONCLUSION

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

REFERENCES

End Notes

Chapter 2 DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS: SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE USED TITLE I FUNDS PRIMARILY TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION

WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY

WHAT GAO FOUND

ABBREVIATIONS

BACKGROUND

Educational Expenditures

Requirements

Oversight

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

OIG Audits

Single Audits

AGENCY COMMENT

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

Cranston Public Schools

Providence Public School Department

Puyallup School District

North Thurston Public Schools

Seattle Public Schools

End Notes

INDEX

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