Total Title I Funding per Eligible Child, 2008-09 School Year


Last Updated: December 03, 2008
 

This appeared in the December 2008 Rural Policy Matters.

Total Title I Funding per Eligible Child, 2008-09 School Year

 

Data source: U.S. Department of Education, Revised SY0809 Title I Allocation data file.

 

Rural students receive, on average, less funding per eligible student through the federal Title I program, which is intended to provide additional educational support for very low-income and seriously at-risk students. Several streams of Title I funding were re-directed from high-poverty small and rural districts to lower-poverty larger districts when changes to the formulas by which Title I funding is distributed were implemented with No Child Left Behind.

Read more from the December 2008 Rural Policy Matters.