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Linda Jacobson that the U.S. Department of Education has finalized its 鈥渟upplement not supplant鈥� rule requiring districts to demonstrate they are using federal Title I money in addition to state and local funds.聽鈥淭he guidance says districts must show the methods they use to allocate state and local funds are 鈥楾itle I neutral,鈥欌�� Jacobson writes. 鈥淚n other words, schools should receive all of the state and local funds they would receive if they were not Title I schools 鈥� but districts are not required to spell out which costs or services paid for with Title I dollars are supplemental.鈥�

The article also notes that when the department 鈥渋ssued a draft of the guidance in February, advocates for increasing resources to high-poverty schools said that it didn鈥檛 do enough to ensure that schools were using federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to truly supplement funding for schools serving more low-income families.鈥� In to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Education Trust wrote at the time that a 鈥渄istrict could easily be in compliance with this interpretation of the law while allocating fewer state and local dollars to every single Title I school in the district and using the federal Title I funds to fill that hole so long as the district gave any reason for doing so that doesn鈥檛 explicitly mention Title I.鈥澛燞owever, state officials called for this kind of flexibility, and CCSSO put forth its .

More of the week鈥檚 top ESSA headlines:

Indiana and federal officials resolve struggling school funding dispute

鈥淯.S. education officials have resolved a dispute among Indiana officials by clarifying that struggling schools within 鈥榯ransformation zones鈥� can be eligible to receive federal school improvement grant money beyond four years,鈥澛�.

The dispute was resolved by the U.S. Department of Education 鈥渁fter the Indiana Department of Education, which oversees school districts, claimed in a memo to the 11-member State Board of Education that grant money for transformation zones is limited to four years under the U.S. Every Student Succeeds Act.鈥�

Teacher shortage bill

聽Insider NJ, U.S.聽Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representatives Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) have reintroduced legislation to address the nation鈥檚 increasingly concerning teacher shortage.

The “Supporting the Teaching Profession Through Revitalizing Investments in Valuable Educators (STRIVE)聽Act鈥澛爓ould overhaul the student loan forgiveness program by 鈥減roviding incremental loan forgiveness each year to public school teachers who teach in low-income schools,鈥� and after 鈥渟even years, such teachers would have their student loans completely cancelled.鈥�

The bill聽鈥渨ould also increase聽financial assistance to teachers by reimbursing low-income teachers for their licensing and certification fees which can be upwards of聽$400鈥� and 鈥渂oost professional development opportunities for teachers by increasing and mandatorily funding Title II of the Every Student Succeeds聽Act.”

Shifting the finance discussion from revenue to spending聽

In聽Education Next, Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University鈥檚 McCourt School of Public Policy,聽聽education finance 鈥� and considers the question of why most people 鈥渏ump to the revenue side of the equation.” The 鈥渟pending side,鈥� she says, is just as important, but so much less time is spent on it because of a 鈥渓ack of visibility into how the money is spent.鈥�

But that is changing under ESSA, as school-level expenditure data disclosure is required under the federal law.

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