Organizing and Educating Tools for Formula Fairness Campaign Supporters
This page offers organizing and educating tools for Formula Fairness Campaign supporters to use with groups and individuals they are engaging in Title I formula reform. The tools available will change from time to time, so visit this page often. If you need to "walk through" use of any of these tools, email marty.strange@comcast.net.
Tools
- Grassroots Slide Show – The basics about Title I and the Number Weighting Issue designed for use by non-expert presenters before grassroots audiences. Available in either .pdf or .ppt format.
- Professional Slide Show – The basics plus a little more depth about Title I, Number Weighting, and the Statewide spending issues for use by presenters with a little more expertise. Ideal for use with audiences made up of educators, administrators, policy makers, and organizational leaders. Available in either .pdf or .ppt format.
- Prominent National Think Tank, the Center for American Progress, calls for a new Title I funding formula – and puts Number Weighting among the top priorities for change. See Bitter Pill, Better Formula by Raegen Miller and Cynthia G. Brown by clicking here:
Bitter Pill, Better Formula
- The most scholarly analysis of the inequities in the Title I formula is Goodwin Liu’s 2008 article in the Iowa Law Review, Improving Title I Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools. Liu is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Among his conclusions, forcefully argued, is that there are “significant inequities among districts with comparable poverty based on their sizes of enrollment. In particular, small or mid-sized districts that serve half or more of all poor children in areas of high poverty receive less aid than larger districts with comparable poverty.” Read the whole piece here:
Improving Title I Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools
