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School Funding Investigation Illinois Vs Indiana

#1: School funding investigation Illinois vs Indiana

Students will research, compare and contrast how education is funded in one of the fifty states with

Illinois. The instructor will assign each student a state with which to compare with Illinois. The student

will prepare a 5-7 page paper that includes the following items:

  • Opening: Generally, describe each state – school enrollment; average teacher salary, average

    • operating cost per pupil; number of school districts; % of low income and ELL students. Include

    the overall breakdown of how schools are funded – % of school funding from local, state and

    federal sources.

  • Sources of State Revenue: How does each State fund education? i.e., lottery, property taxes,

    • income taxes, sales taxes, alcohol taxes, etc.

  • Legal challenges to the state funding of schools: Have there been any recent challenges to each

    • State’s school funding formula? If so, when and why? Were they successful?

  • General State Aid: Illinois uses an Evidenced Based Funding Model. What model does the state

    • you comparing to Illinois utilize? How do the two compare? Is there anything you like about the

    other state’s model better than Illinois?

  • Categorical Aid: How is funding for special education, ELL, low-income students, etc.

    • distributed? Is it incorporated in the general state aid formula or is it separate?

  • Adequacy/Equity issues: What litigation has occurred in Illinois and in the state you are

    • comparing challenging school funding adequacy/equity issues?

  • Impact on Students: Based on your research answer the following two questions:

    • o Are students more prepared and performing better now than 5 years ago? Why/Why

    not? Has funding affected your answer?

    o Will students be more prepared and perform better in 5 years than now? Why/Why not?

    Has funding affected your answer?

    An outline for your paper follows:

    1) CUC Coversheet

    2) Title Page

    3) Abstract

    4) Body of Paper

    i. Opening

    ii. Sources of State Revenue

    iii. Legal challenges to the State’s funding of schools

    iv. General State Aid

    v. Categorical Aid

    vi. Adequacy/Equity issues

    vii. Impact on Students

    5) References (APA 7th Edition; 5 different sources of which the textbook can only count as one are

    required for a rating of Meets Expectations; sources must be citied in the paper )