Title: Title I Funding: Poor Children Benefit Though Funding Per Poor Child Differs
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02242.pdf
Summary: This GAO report targets issues of Title I regarding the per pupil allotments that are disproportionate in equality to the actual need and ideas to fix this problem including the use of less restrictive hold-harmless provisions, funding targeted grants, using an alternative cost factor, or raising the eligibility threshold.
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Category: This is an institutional source.
What is it? This is an online version of the GAO report to the Congressional Addressees (specifically the Department of Education).
Publication Information: GAO Report. January 2002.
Author: Natalie Britton, Karen Brown, Patrick DiBattista, Robert Dinkelmeyer, Jerry Fastrup, Sarah Glavin, Sonya Harmeyer, Peter Minarik, and Michael Williams. Jon Barker, Richard Burkard, and Robert Parker
Location: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02242.pdf
Accessed: February 5, 2009
Support: References legislation signed by President Bush 2002.
Census references are made to show where terms are being drawn from and how they are measuring accuracy in them. These are terms like “Title-I-Eligible” and “poor children.”
Department of Education is referenced in the article to show how schools are divided in the current plan—eight location types.
Most of the references are like the latter two in that they are merely giving more information about what could be loose terms. This gives credibility in regards to the nature of this report because defining terms allows the reader to be sure about what the information is being based on. Such sourcing is very important when a broad range of views on what certain things could mean exists.
Audience and Agenda: The targeted audience in this article is very specific as it is addressing the Department of Education and a Congressional Committee. The use of this document is probably used to spread the ideas across the education network and referenced to often within that field; however, outside of that it would seem the audience ends. The agenda seems to discuss new ideas for how to restructure per child funds of Title I and better its scope to serve its purpose.
Usefulness: This report is an important piece of my should question in that it gets into issues involving the inefficiency of Title I funds and where/how they are being allocated. Since the ideas expressed are based on solving the problems, the report provides a good structure to look forward as things develop in the current administration. The idea of adjusting the funds to better serve the disadvantaged children in schools is a strong place to argue from. I plan to use this information to help address an actual need for restructuring of Title I allocations and a deep look into why. This document will help to better understand future readings because it really digs at where things are not going well and to what extent that is happening.
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