Funding Flexibility Enhanced Under New K-12 Law

Education Week: Funding issues weren't often at the forefront of the controversies surrounding the Every Student Succeeds Act as Congress forged its way to a rare bipartisan agreement last month. But the newly reauthorized version of the main federal K-12 law does make significant changes in how schools can use dollars set aside for economically disadvantaged students.

Those and other changes give states and districts more flexibility in general—and particularly in how they use Title I aid. Around four dozen districts will also get the chance to create a new funding formula, using federal dollars, that's intended to target more money...

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