Tuesday, February 02, 1999
More money headed for neighborhood schools
BY DANA DiFILIPPO
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati Public Schools has taken the first step in erasing a $30 million spending gap between neighborhood schools and magnet programs by redistributing $1 million in federal money earmarked for poor students.
Officials decided to redirect $1 million in Title I money, which is for students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches, from its major magnet programs to neighborhood schools.
The district receives $20 million under Title I based on its number of poor students, Associate Superintendent Kathleen Ware said. About 64 percent of the district's stu dents fall below the federal poverty level.
Federal law requires schools where more than 75 percent of students are poor to receive the money; in Cincinnati, 37 schools fit that category, Ms. Ware said.
But districts don't have to use Title I money to support schools where less than 75 percent of students are poor.
So officials — with the approval of the Ohio Department of Education — agreed to cut some Title I money from the Academy of World Languages, Carson, Carthage, Eastern Hills, Eastwood, Sands, Schiel, Silverton and Woodford.
Those schools, which fall below the 75 percent poverty index, receive more money from the district's general fund than neighborhood schools, Ms. Ware said.
The $1 million will be spread around neighborhood schools in the 1999-00 school year to boost per-pupil spending.
“We're trying to find any other way, such as savings, that we could effect in how we do business, so we could redistribute to neighborhood schools,” Ms. Ware said.
In recent weeks, officials contemplating the need for a tax increase have proposed a 5.5-mill, or $30 million, increase to equalize funding. Per-pupil spending now ranges from about $2,900 to $5,900 in the district's elementaries.
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