New America Releases "Equitable Resources in Low Income Schools"

Washington, DC -- Today the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project releases "Equitable Resources in Low Income Schools: Teacher Equity and the Federal Title I Comparability Requirement," by former New America Foundation policy analyst Lindsey Luebchow. The new issue brief details shortcomings of the current Title I comparability provision and provides recommendations for how to improve it.

"When Congress reauthorizes NCLB, it will have the opportunity to address the teacher and resource inequities in our schools by closing loopholes and strengthening the Title I intra-district school finance comparability provision," Luebchow said.

The paper includes a detailed examination of the inequities within school districts, the loopholes in the law that allow these inequities and the repercussions of unequal distribution of resources, and recommendations for how to make school resources within districts more equitable.

You can read the full report at www.NewAmerica.net.

More information and materials are also available here, on the event page from today's launch event. Transcripts and audio from the event will be added as soon as possible.

If you have any questions about the report, please contact Emilie Deans at deans@newamerica.net.

Media inquiries, please contact Erin Drankoski at drankoski@newamerica.net.

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