TY - JOUR
T1 - Living on the edges of state school-funding policies
T2 - The plight of at-risk, limited-english-proficient, and gifted children
AU - Baker, Bruce D.
PY - 2001/11
Y1 - 2001/11
N2 - This study explores the rationality of state aid allocations to local school districts for providing opportunities to at-risk, limited-English-proficient (LEP), and gifted and talented pupils, referred to throughout as fringe populations, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics 1995-1996 Common Core of Data. Findings indicate that state aid programs for these populations are largely idiosyncratic. States with exemplary programs for fringe populations are Texas - where LEP aid falls slightly below, but compensatory aid meets, minimal adequacy benchmarks and is both rational and equitable, and gifted education aid is allocated in an equalized pattern - and Virginia, where compensatory aid passes on all three measures, and gifted education aid is substantial and strongly equalized. States with consistently less than exemplary records include Kansas - which provides uniformly inadequate, questionably rational, and partially disequalizing aid for compensatory and LEP programs - and New Mexico, whose aid allocations resemble those of Kansas.
AB - This study explores the rationality of state aid allocations to local school districts for providing opportunities to at-risk, limited-English-proficient (LEP), and gifted and talented pupils, referred to throughout as fringe populations, using data from the National Center for Education Statistics 1995-1996 Common Core of Data. Findings indicate that state aid programs for these populations are largely idiosyncratic. States with exemplary programs for fringe populations are Texas - where LEP aid falls slightly below, but compensatory aid meets, minimal adequacy benchmarks and is both rational and equitable, and gifted education aid is allocated in an equalized pattern - and Virginia, where compensatory aid passes on all three measures, and gifted education aid is substantial and strongly equalized. States with consistently less than exemplary records include Kansas - which provides uniformly inadequate, questionably rational, and partially disequalizing aid for compensatory and LEP programs - and New Mexico, whose aid allocations resemble those of Kansas.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904801015005004
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904801015005004
M3 - Article
SN - 0895-9048
VL - 15
SP - 699
EP - 723
JO - Educational Policy
JF - Educational Policy
IS - 5
ER -