Part 3: Equality, Equity, and Adequacy
Equality provides equal funds to support educational programs to benefit all students and enables school districts to meet state accreditation standards.
Examples: Support the 21st century learner by funding afterschool programs and instructional facilities allotments that meet the need of students in their academic core subjects.
Equity simply means that the system is fair and responds to the needs of individuals. The term clearly defines fairness to all students and provides equal distribution of resources for schooling, and emphasizes the relationship between student differences and characteristics of school districts in the basic allotment adjustment.
For example, Gifted/Talented Educational goal in Texas is to provide equitable representation of students group in G/T programs. Districts in the state with available G/T programs are to provide G/T assessments to identify diverse populations of students for learning opportunities in Gifted/Talented Education. Special Education programs would be another example.Adequacy refers to funding allowances that support the needs of student achievement.
In our school district the majority of campuses receive Title I funds. Programs like “No Child Left Behind,” and the previous standardized test like TAKS have provided a framework for implementing a system that monitors the data for student population groups such as at-risk, economically disadvantaged, African American, Hispanic, Special Education, and G/T.
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