The title pretty much says it all. Robin Hood in Reverse, a new report from the Center for American Progress, explains why “portability"—the notion that states should be allowed to opt out of the current system of Title I that directs federal education funds to help low-income children—is a bad idea.
The result of portability, the report explains, is that the nation’s largest school districts could stand to lose millions of dollars. If Illinois opted for portable Title I dollars, for example, Chicago could lose more than $64 million, while the much more affluent suburb of Naperville could see allocations increase by more than $380,000. In California, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District could lose out on more than $75 million, while the Beverly Hills Unified School District could gain $140,000. These patterns are similar for every state. Portability would redistribute vast amounts of resources away from the students with the most needs to provide marginal new funding to other, more well-off students.
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