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Compensatory Education: Difficulties in Measuring Comparability of Resources Within School Districts

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 11, 1993
Report No. HRD-93-37
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Summary:

The Chapter 1 program, the backbone of federal elementary and secondary education efforts, gave states about $6.1 billion in fiscal year 1992 to deliver supplemental educational services to educationally disadvantaged students. These services were intended to help students attain grade-level proficiency and increase their achievement in basic and more advanced skills. The Chapter 1 comparability provision is a key program component. It seeks to ensure that school districts (1) continue to provide basic services to poor schools with large concentrations of Chapter 1-eligible children and (2) use Chapter 1 funds only to supplement those basic services funded by nonfederal sources. The provision says that basic services must be comparable in poor and non-poor schools. This report assesses school district compliance with current comparability requirements and provides information on alternative ways to measure comparability.

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