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Originally Posted by AGDee
While not directly "losing funds" for failure to meet the AYP, the following requirement definitely leads to losing funds within a district:
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 also established new educational options for students who attend Title I schools that are identified for improvement. School districts must offer these students the option to transfer to another school in the district that is not identified for improvement and must provide or pay for transportation. If the district does not have space to accommodate all transfer requests, it must give priority to low-achieving students from low-income families.
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7...5666--,00.html
So, they lose the funding for those students who choose to transfer AND must pay for their transportation even if they aren't receiving funding for them. |
Well, these transfers are limited to the same district, so while the funds might move from one school to another, they are still within APS: APS wouldn't lose money on the transfers themselves.
They might lose money for the transportation costs certainly, but I doubt that's what all this was about really.
ETA: I didn't know if you'd know this or not since you're in a different professional field, but teaching contracts are at the district level rather than the school level (I think everywhere, but certainly in Georgia). So a teacher wouldn't necessarily need to be afraid that if enrollment went down at her school because of transfers within the district that she'd lose her job. If you were going to be renewed for the next year performance and experience-wise and there were still the same number of kids in the district, you'd probably just get moved to a new school since you are a district employee, not a school employee. The administrators might be in a different boat, but if the district itself weren't corrupt, they wouldn't have anything to worry about either. The county office would know the challenges they faced at their schools and would have reasonable expectations for improvement. And since the total pool of funding wouldn't really be reduced, they'd be able to offer support.
I don't have a supporting document to link, but I think I've seen previously that a very low percentage of kids at Needs Improvement Schools choose to transfer, so the new transportation costs would probably be a drop in the bucket.