Interim Analysis of School Facility Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Including Expenditures Through January 5, 2010

Interim Analysis of School Facility Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Including Expenditures Through January 5, 2010
Author: 21st Century School Fund
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Total Pages: 7
Release: 2010
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The 21st Century School Fund, through its Building Educational Success Together (BEST) collaborative, is tracking the effect of federal stimulus funding on the condition of PK-12 public school facilities and whether or not the distribution of ARRA funding related to public school facilities is helping reduce the disparity of capital expenditures among and between school districts. This brief report highlights initial findings related to the following questions: (1) How much disparity exists in school facility spending by state and locality?; (2) How were school facilities addressed in the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act?; (3) What has happened to our nation's school facilities as a result of ARRA provisions?; and (4) Which schools and which students benefited from ARRA expenditures? (Contains 1 table and 3 footnotes.) [This paper was created in partnership with the Building Educational Success Together collaborative.].

Schools and Stimulus

Schools and Stimulus
Author: Bill Dupor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2015-04-19
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ISBN: 9781457867620

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This study analyzes the impact of the education funding component of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) on public school districts. The authors use cross-sectional differences in district-level Recovery Act funding to investigate the program's impact on staffing, expenditures and debt accumulation. They estimate that $1 million of grants to a district had the following effects: expenditures increased by $570 thousand, district employment saw little or no change, and an additional $370 thousand in debt was accumulated. Moreover, 70% of the increase in expenditures came in the form of capital outlays. Next, the authors built a model of a school district's budgeting problem, which they calibrate to district level expenditure and staffing data. They also use the model to conduct policy experiments. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Author: Tom Vilsack
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2011-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1437983022

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Home to more than 50 million people and our Nation¿s ag. industry, Rural America (RA) plays a vital role in ensuring a vibrant national economy. The Obama Admin. recognizes the importance of the rural economic engine and took swift action to stabilize the rural economy and assist rural communities in the aftermath of the economic downturn. This report provides an overview of how Fed. investments under the ARRA of 2009 are helping rural communities win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building our global competition. Contents: Building the Infrastructure of the 21st Century; Investing in Clean Energy and the Environ.; Increasing Economic Opportunity in RA; Enhancing the Quality of Life in RA. A print on demand report.

School Improvement Grants

School Improvement Grants
Author: Office of Inspector General (ED)
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Total Pages: 33
Release: 2012
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This final audit report covers the results of the review of five State educational agencies' monitoring plans and awarding processes for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and regular School Improvement Grants funds that the State educational agencies awarded for fiscal year 2009 (for use during school year 2010-2011). The objectives of the audit were to: (1) identify monitoring plans related to School Improvement Grants funds at selected State educational agencies (SEA); and (2) determine whether selected SEAs used award processes that resulted in the appropriate allocations of School Improvement Grants funds only to local educational agencies (LEA) with schools having the greatest need for the funds and to LEAs with the strongest commitment to using the funds to raise student achievement. The audit was conducted at the Florida Department of Education (Florida), Georgia Department of Education (Georgia), New York State Education Department (New York), Ohio Department of Education (Ohio), and Texas Education Agency (Texas). The audit was focused on the five SEAs' monitoring plans and awarding processes for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and regular School Improvement Grants funds that the SEAs awarded for fiscal year 2009 (for use during school year 2010-2011). For the first objective, the audit period reviewed each SEA varied depending on the dates of our site visits. The audit period for the second objective was March 29, 2010, through December 31, 2010. The following are appended: (1) Monitoring Plans for Florida, Georgia, New York, Ohio, and Texas; and (2) Auditee Comments.

Funding Public Schools in the United States and Indian Country

Funding Public Schools in the United States and Indian Country
Author: David C. Thompson
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641136782

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The National Education Finance Academy (NEFA) has completed a project providing a one- of-a-kind practical book on funding P-12 education in the United States. The book, entitled Funding Public Schools in the United States and Indian Country is a single volume with a clear and short chapter about each state. Approximately 50% of chapters are authored by university faculty who are members of NEFA; approximately 25% of chapters are authored by state department of education officials and/or state school board association officials; and the remaining 25% of chapters are authored by ASBO affiliate states. Each chapter contains information about: • Each state’s aid formula background; • Basic support program description and operation (the state aid formula) including how school aid is apportioned (e.g., state appropriations, local tax contributions, cost share ratios, and more); • Supplemental funding options relating to how school districts raise funds attached to or above the regular state aid scheme; • Compensatory programs operated in school districts and how those are funded and aided; • Categorical programs operated in school districts and how those are funded and aided; • Any funding supports for transportation operations; • Any funding supports for physical facilities and operations; and • Other state aids not covered in the above list.

State and District Receipt of Recovery Act Funds. A Report from Charting the Progress of Education Reform

State and District Receipt of Recovery Act Funds. A Report from Charting the Progress of Education Reform
Author: Roberta Garrison-Mogren
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Total Pages: 71
Release: 2012
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA or the Recovery Act) of 2009 provided an unprecedented level of funding designed to "stimulate the economy in the short-term and invest wisely, using these funds to improve schools, raise achievement, drive reforms and produce better results for children and young people for the long-term health of our nation." The distribution of Recovery Act funds was intended to reflect these multiple goals. Nearly $97.4 billion were allocated to the U.S. Department of Education (ED), of which $70.6 billion were awarded by ED for primary and secondary (K-12) education through existing and new federal programs. These funds were distributed to states and districts using formulas based primarily on population and student poverty and through competitive grants. Consistent with its emphasis on transparency, the Recovery Act also included extensive reporting requirements for the receipt and use of Recovery Act funds. This report brings together publicly available information about Recovery Act education grants--all awarded by September 30, 2010--and the sub-grants made by grant recipients as of December 31, 2010. It examines (1) how much states and districts received from the Recovery Act and its different programs; and (2) whether and how the distribution of funds varied by selected characteristics of the recipient states and districts. This information lays the groundwork for ED's multi-year evaluation, "Charting the Progress of Education Reform: An Evaluation of the Recovery Act's Role." The evaluation examines the implementation of K-12 education reforms promoted by the Act across states, school districts, and schools. Key findings from this examination reveal that: (1) the Recovery Act provided an average of $1,396 per pupil for K-12 programs; (2) the Recovery Act K-12 funding to individual states ranged from $1,063 to $3,632 per pupil; (3) on average, 81 percent of Recovery Act K-12 funding was awarded to local education agencies (LEAs), either through sub-grants from states or through direct grants from ED. In total, 93 percent of all school districts in the nation received Recovery Act funds from at least one program; and (4) high-need school districts--defined as those with the highest rates of child poverty as well as those with the lowest student achievement--received considerably more funding per pupil than did districts with less need. Appended are: (1) Data Sources; (2) Methods; and (3) Supplementary Data Tables. (Contains 15 figures, 13 tables, and 45 footnotes.).

Senate Record Votes

Senate Record Votes
Author:
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Total Pages: 884
Release: 2009
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Recovery Act

Recovery Act
Author: Cornelia M. Ashby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) provides $70.3 billion for three education programs--the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF), Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Title I), and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Act requires recipients to be accountable for how these funds are being used and what is being achieved. To help attain the level of transparency needed for accountability, recipients are to report quarterly on their award activities and expected outcomes. This information is available to the public on Recovery.gov, the government's official Recovery Act Web site. This report covers three Education programs funded by the Recovery Act. It (1) describes what the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Education (Education) did to facilitate implementation of requirements for recipients to describe the use of funds and (2) assesses the extent to which award descriptions are transparent It also describes reported fund uses for a sample of subrecipients. GAO reviewed requirements for reporting in the Act as well as guidance provided by OMB and Education. GAO assessed the transparency of descriptions for the three education programs on Recovery.gov. GAO recommends that the Secretary of Education, in consultation with OMB, remove the suggested language for the project description field from its guidance and instruct states to include information, to the extent possible, on how the funds are being used and potential project outcomes or results. Appended are: (1) SFSF Education Stabilization Funds Prime Recipient Review and Descriptions; (2) IDEA Part B for School Aged Children Prime Recipient Review and Descriptions; (3) ESEA Title I, Part A Grants Prime Recipient Review and Descriptions; (4) SFSF Education Stabilization Funds: Selected Subrecipient (LEA) Descriptions; (5) IDEA Part B for School Aged Children: Selected Subrecipient (LEA) Descriptions; (6) ESEA Title I, Part A Grants to Local Educational Agencies: Selected Subrecipient (LEA) Descriptions; (7) Scope and Methodology; and (8) GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments. (Contains 5 tables and 15 footnotes.).

The Potential Impact of Revising the Title I Comparability Requirement to Focus on School-Level Expenditures. A Policy Brief from the U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service

The Potential Impact of Revising the Title I Comparability Requirement to Focus on School-Level Expenditures. A Policy Brief from the U.S. Department of Education, Policy and Program Studies Service
Author: Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (ED), Policy and Program Studies Service
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Total Pages: 11
Release: 2011
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The "Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965" ("ESEA") requires that school districts provide services to higher-poverty, Title I schools, from state and local funds, that are at least comparable to services in lower-poverty, non-Title I schools. The current Title I comparability requirement allows school districts to demonstrate compliance in various ways and does not require comparability of actual school-level expenditures. New data collected in response to a requirement in the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" ("ARRA") make it possible, for the first time, to conduct a nation-wide analysis comparing school-level expenditures in Title I and non-Title I schools and to examine the potential impact of revising the Title I comparability requirement to focus on school-level expenditures. This policy brief examines the projected number of school districts that would be out of compliance with an expenditures-based comparability requirement under various possible specifications, the amount of funds that such districts might need to add to Title I schools and higher-poverty schools in order to come into compliance, and the amount of additional funds that could flow to low-expenditure schools. Appended are: (1) Data Source and Quality; and (2) Supplemental Tables. (Contains 7 tables and 6 footnotes.).

Schools and Stimulus

Schools and Stimulus
Author: Bill Dupor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2019
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This paper analyzes the impact of the education funding component of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Recovery Act) on public school districts. We use cross- Sectional differences in district-level Recovery Act funding to investigate the program's impact on staffing, expenditures and debt accumulation. To achieve identification, we use exogenous variation across districts in the allocations of Recovery Act funds for special needs students. We estimate that $1 million of grants to a district had the following effects: expenditures increased by $570 thousand, district employment saw little or no change, and an additional $370 thousand in debt was accumulated. Moreover, 70% of the increase in expenditures came in the form of capital outlays. Next, we build a dynamic, decision theoretic model of a school district's budgeting problem, which we calibrate to district level expenditure and staffing data. The model can qualitatively match the employment and capital expenditure responses from our regressions. We also use the model to conduct policy experiments.