AA 10-1...Title I Fairness Action Alert

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Urge Your Senators and Representative to Support Title I Fairness

Say that “Number Weighting” Has To Be Eliminated.

End Discrimination against Rural and Small Districts

 

 Background: 

The Obama Administration has released its recommendations (called “A Blueprint for Reform”) for re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.  You can download it by clicking here.

As expected, the Blueprint is silent on any changes in the Title I formula.  However, it does “… call on school districts and states to take steps to ensure equity by such means as moving toward comparability in resources between high- and low-poverty schools.” 

But it does not recommend that the federal government do the same with the distribution of Title I funds to school districts.  It says nothing about eliminating the provision in the Title I formula known as “number weighting” that takes money from small, high-poverty districts, most of which are rural, and sends it to very large districts whether they are high-poverty or not. 

Action Needed:

It is clear that any Title I formula reform is going to originate in the Congress.   A phone call, email, or letter from you can help assure that it does.  You should:

  1. Contact your Senators and Representative in Congress and ask them to insist that the Title I formula be addressed and that the “number weighting” provision be eliminated.
  2. If your Senators or Representative are on the committees that handle education legislation (see below), it is crucial that you contact them now as these committees are taking input now. 

 For more information on Title I and Number Weighting click here

You can identify your Congressmen and get their contact information by clicking here

 

House Committee on Education and Labor

 

 

Democrats by Rank

Republicans by Rank

George Miller, Chairman (CA-07)

John Kline, Ranking Member (MN-02)

Dale E. Kildee (MI-05)

Thomas E. Petri (WI-06)

Donald M. Payne (NJ-10)

Howard "Buck" McKeon (CA-25)

Robert E. Andrews (NJ-01)

Peter Hoekstra (MI-02)

Robert C. Scott (VA-03)

Michael N. Castle (DE-At Large)

Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-06)

Mark E. Souder (IN-03)

Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)

Vernon J. Ehlers (MI-03)

Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04)

Judy Biggert (IL-13)

John F. Tierney (MA-06)

Todd Russell Platts (PA-19)

Dennis J. Kucinich (OH-10)

Joe Wilson (SC-02)

David Wu (OR-01)

Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05)

Rush D. Holt (NJ-12)

Tom Price (GA-06)

Susan A. Davis (CA-53)

Rob Bishop (UT-01)

Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)

Brett Guthrie (KY-2)

Timothy H. Bishop (NY-01)

Bill Cassidy (LA-6)

Joe Sestak (PA-07)

Tom McClintock (CA-4)

Dave Loebsack (IA-02)

Duncan D. Hunter (CA-52)

Mazie Hirono (HI-02)

David P. Roe (TN-1)

Jason Altmire (PA-04)

Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-05)

Phil Hare (IL-17)

 

Yvette Clarke (NY-11)

 

Joe Courtney (CT-02)

 

Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01)

 

Marcia Fudge (OH-11)

 

Jared Polis (CO-2)

 

Paul Tonko (NY-21)

 

Pedro Pierluisi (PR)

 

Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan  (Northern Mariana Islands)

 

Dina Titus (NV-3)

 

Judy Chu (CA-32)

 

 

U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

 

 

Democrats by Rank

Republicans by Rank

Tom Harkin (IA)

Michael B. Enzi (WY)

Christopher Dodd (CT)

Judd Gregg (NH)

Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)

Lamar Alexander (TN)

Jeff Bingaman (NM)

Richard Burr (NC)

Patty Murray (WA)

Johnny Isakson (GA)

Jack Reed (RI)

John McCain (AZ)

Bernard Sanders (I) (VT)

Orrin G. Hatch (UT)

Sherrod Brown (OH)

Lisa Murkowski (AK)

Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)

Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK)

Kay Hagan (NC)

Pat Roberts (KS)

Jeff Merkley (OR)

 

Al Franken (MN)

 

Michael Bennet (CO)

 

 

For more information on how to contact your members of congress click here

Thank you for taking Action!