Recently, Puerto Rico’s island-wide school district was approved to use the flexibility for the 2018-2019 school year.
The weighted student funding pilot allows up to 50 school districts to consolidate eligible federal education funding with state and local funding in order to develop a student-centered funding system based on weighted per-pupil allocations for low-income and otherwise disadvantaged students. The letter provides responses to common questions states have raised about changes made to the requirements for the reservation of Title I funds to serve homeless students.Īrizona School District Applies for ESSA Flexibility: Arizona’s Roosevelt School District #66 is the only school district to apply by the July 15 deadline to use Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) flexibility in the 2019-2020 school year under the weighted student funding pilot, according to Education Week. Department of Education (USED) published a letter that was addressed to McKinney-Vento and Title I, Part A state coordinators. USED Issues Guidance on Serving Homeless Students: The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Trump Administration to restart the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
On August 10, USED announced it plans to rescind Obama-era “gainful employment” regulations, which require the elimination of federal aid to career education and certificate programs, including those specifically offered at for-profit institutions if the graduates of said programs maintained large amounts of student loan debt relative to their earnings.
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