United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-08-30 monographic deposited born digital 50 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-96-142 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142 P0b002ee18039c23b f:he96142 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142 HEHS-96-142 Educational grants Economically depressed areas Supplemental appropriations Elementary education Secondary education Disadvantaged persons Education Finance Incentive Program Letter Report HEHS Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the measures of equity and effort included in the Title I Education Finance Incentive Program, focusing on: (1) several options for improving these measures; (2) the characteristics of states with higher levels of equity and effort; and (3) alternative ways of using these measures in allocating title I funds.<p/>GAO found that: (1) the Education Finance Incentive Program's definition of effort does not include a comprehensive measure of states' funding capacity, penalizes states with a high proportion of school-age children, and provides no incentive for low-effort states to increase their effort in funding elementary and secondary education; (2) the title I definition of equity excludes a comprehensive measure of the differences in students' needs among school districts and the differences in purchasing power among districts; (3) adjustments to the effort factor should include using states' total taxable resources in establishing the states' education funding capacity and eliminating the bias against low-effort states; (4) adjustments to the equity factor should include rewarding states for increasing their level of equity in education spending and considering more fully the differences in educating higher-needs students; and (5) the allocation of title I funds should be based on the number of children in poverty rather than on the states' total number of school-age children. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142.pdf GAO/HEHS-96-142 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-142 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-96-142; School Finance: Options for Improving Measures of Effort and Equity in Title I; Educational grants Economically depressed areas Supplemental appropriations Elementary education Secondary education Disadvantaged persons Education Finance Incentive Program Public Law 103-382 Public Law 104-134