Study of the Title I, Part A Grant Program Mathematical Formulas (NCES 2019-016)

This study responds to a congressional mandate under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (Sec. 9211) to examine the distribution of Title I funds to understand how the current formulas affect various types of districts, such as large or small districts, those in poor or rich areas, and those in urban or rural areas. The legislation directed the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to respond to nine specific analytic tasks in a report. These analytic tasks specifically called for comparisons of districts across the 12 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) geographic locales, ranging from large cities to remote rural areas.