Audrey Johnson wrote:
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>The TITLE 1 pot of money that MPS receives next year
>will be larger and that is true. However, the CFL
>(Dept. of Children, Families and Learning) is stating
>that each student who receives aid will get more,
>so that instead of each student counted at a school
>receiving TITLE 1 gets $480, they will receive $565
>per child. If the district could keep that $480 cap,
>then the number schools getting TITLE 1 money in our
>district would increase. There would be enough money
>to cover schools that have a poverty level of above
>40% instead of 54%.
I'm sorry, but I don't follow the logic here. If
the per-student Title I allocation is $565, and the
money is allocated on a per-student basis, then why
on earth would you want to cap the amoputn at $480?
What are you proposing to do with the other $85 per
student? Is the amount of money fixed so that you can't
cover all Title I students adequately because of the
increased cap?
The way this reads to me is that the Feds and the
State DCFL want to spend more on each Title I child,
but MPS thinks the $480 is quite enough and would rather
spend the extra $85 on something else. What that is,
you don't say.
I also don't understand how the high schools enter
into this. Is the $565 per eligible high school student
deducted from a fixed pool of money that otherwise
would have been spent solely on elementary school kids?
Far be it from me to accuse Ms. Johnson of playing games
with the numbers, but her explanation of how Title I
money is allocated and what it has to do with the
closure of the three schools in SE Minneapolis is
totally opaque to me. I would appreciate having more
light shed on the subject.
Cordially,
Kevin Trainor
GOP candidate for Minnesota House, 61A
East Phillips
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