Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Evaluation of Current Methodology (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Title I Allocation Procedures
Title I Allocation Procedures
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;2 and children in local institutions for neglected and delinquent children. The Census Bureau's estimates of poor school-age children account for about 95 percent of total formula-eligible children.
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Finally, the Title I formulas include hold-harmless provisions to cushion the impact of decreases in allocations. Historically, there was no hold-harmless provision for concentration grants, but for school year 1996-1997, the Title I 3The national average grant payment for basic grants is the total amount of basic grant funds divided by the number of formula-eligible children in school districts that are eligible for basic grants.
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In addition, for school years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, Congress stipulated that school districts that were no longer eligible for a concentration grant under the new direct allocation procedure using the Census Bureau's 1995 estimates of poor school-age children would nonetheless receive 100 percent of the previous year' s concentration grant. Previously, a district had to meet the eligibility threshold (more than 6,500 or more than 15% formula-eligible children)
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· Ten states used 1990 census data and estimates of the other categories of formula-eligible children, such as foster children. Nine states used a combination of 1990 census data together with counts of children approved to receive free meals or free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Program, or counts of children in families receiving AFDC, or a composite of AFDC, food stamps, and Medicaid data.
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and poor children estimated from state income tax data (weighted at one-half) ; One state used free lunch counts; · One state used free lunch and free milk counts from public and nonpublic schools; 5See Chapter 1 for the definition of "related children."
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All nine states used counts of other categories of formula-eligible children, such as children in locally operated institutions for neglected children, in addition to the sources listed above.
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