Sentences with phrase «discretion over school funding»

The loss means the Legislature continues to have sole discretion over school funding, but public school advocates say they aren't ready to give up yet.

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The rule also could prompt districts to change which of their eligible schools participate in Title I: a district's total allocation of Title I funds is set according to student, not school characteristics, and districts themselves have considerable discretion over how much to concentrate those funds in their poorest schools or to spread them more thinly over more schools.

Beyond that, few details are available about the plan, such as the amount of funding over which states will have more discretion and the turnaround models that failing schools will have to use.

States are required to set aside 7 percent of their Title I funding for school improvement activities, and they have wide discretion over how they spend it.