Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty Interim Report 1, Evaluation of 1993 County Estimates for Title I Allocations (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1. INTRODUCTION
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The funds are allocated at the county level, and the states then distribute these funds among school districts within each county (see Moskowitz et al., 19931. The county allocations are based on the numbers of eligible children, who are predominantly children aged 5-17 in families with incomes below the poverty level, but also include children iThe poverty status of individuals is determined by comparing the before-tax money income of their family to the appropriate poverty threshold.
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The practice until recently had been to use poverty estimates based on decennial census data. Since the rates of poverty, as well as the actual number of children in poverty, change over time, however, Congress recently authorized the Bureau of the Census to provide updated estimates of poverty for the county allocations and, subsequently, for school districts (formally known as local educational agencies, LEAs)
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This interim report of the panel responds to the legislative mandate for an assessment of updated poverty estimates. In order to ensure that the Department of Education would have appropriate information in time for the allocations to be made in the spring of 1997, it was originally assumed that the Census Bureau would release its estimates in the fall of 1996 and that the panel would provide its assessment shortly thereafter.
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