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Cabarrus adopts Title I budget plan and shifts allocation method to direct certification to avoid 'CEP cliff'
Summary
The board approved the district's 2025 Title I budget, switching the funding formula to direct certification only to avoid artificially inflating counts for Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) schools and to preserve allocations for non-CEP schools.
The Cabarrus County Board of Education voted to approve the district's Title I budget for the 2025 school year and to use a direct-certification-only formula for identifying Title I schools and allotments.
District staff explained the change was intended to avoid what they called a "CEP cliff," a side effect of applying a 1.6 multiplier to CEP schools that can artificially inflate student counts used to calculate per-pupil Title I allocations and thereby reduce funding available for non-CEP schools in the district mix.
Under the state-provided options, the district had previously used a hybrid…
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