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El Paso ISD outlines needs-based allocations; trustees press for equity audit recommendations and per-pupil model options
Summary
District staff presented a needs-based allocation plan for state compensatory and Title I funds and described campus-level supports; trustees asked for clearer ties to the pending equity audit and for comparisons of this year’s allocations versus next year’s proposals.
El Paso ISD staff presented an initial needs-based allocation plan at the April 1 budget workshop that would direct supplemental state compensatory and Title I funds to campuses according to indicators such as reading and math performance, percent of economically disadvantaged students and counts of emergent bilingual and at-risk students.
Why it matters: The presentation lays out how federal and state supplemental funds would be distributed among campuses, and trustees said they want the allocations explicitly tied to final recommendations from the district’s pending equity audit before the model is finalized.
Christine Ferrett, who led the needs-based-allocation segment, described the data and the types of differentiated supports the district plans to allocate: class-size reduction teachers…
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