The Education Cost
Sharing Formula allocates state money to local school districts based, among other things, upon a city's or town's tax base, poverty and the number of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunches.
Not exact matches
«Because of the continued allocation of funds from the Barnett
Formula [used to
allocate Scotland's
share of the UK budget], and because of the power to raise revenue within the Scottish Parliament, then the final decision about what we spend on the NHS is not going to be made by anyone outside Scotland.
Along with putting a new Education Cost
Sharing (ECS)
formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of
allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS
formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.
In this presentation given at the 39th annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Cory Edmonds
shared the findings of an Edunomics Lab study exploring seven urban school districts utilizing a student based allocation
formula to determine the portion of total district funds
allocated by the
formula.
Funds are
allocated by
formula, based on states» relative
share of the school - age population.