Some states will extend
portability of education funding to community organizations with the expansion of education savings accounts.
Not exact matches
Instead
of continuing to funnel the bulk
of ESEA
funding through the convoluted Title I program, Title I
portability would catalyze school choice at the state level and greatly empower low - income families to
fund education options that meet the unique learning needs
of their children.
The new platform called
education choice «one
of the greatest civil rights challenges
of our time» and detailed the Party's support for
education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, tuition tax credits, and
portability of federal
funding:
The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating
funding for scores
of K - 12, higher
education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the
education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I
portability programs and private school vouchers.25
The National Coalition for Public
Education — which includes 50 organizations, including the Children's Defense
Fund and the National Urban League — has also written that
portability would expand the amount
of students served through Title I and result in the poorest districts getting less
of overall Title I dollars.
At the Republican National Convention last summer, the GOP adopted a platform detailing the Party's support for
education savings accounts, vouchers, tax credits, and
portability of federal
funding.
Missing from the draft bill was
portability for Title I
funding, which would allow students in impoverished families to use their federal
education funding at any public school
of their choice.