Illinois Approves Legislation Creating Transparency On Title 1 Expenditures Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness
Congrats to state advocates!
Congratulations to Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness and Illinois homeless advocates for passing legislation creating transparency of how school districts spend Title 1 dollars on students experiencing homelessness.
Read at http://bit.ly/3IwH0bc
Key activities included a ‘Freedom of Information Act’ filing that yielded the dollar amounts of what each school district spent on students experiencing homelessness and other ‘at risk’ students. They published a policy brief using the data, and their researcher then posted ‘Tik Toks’ on the data.
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This is very exciting and useful data on the under-allocation of funding from Title I setaside for homeless children and youth. I would love to see other states follow this method.
FYI - Please know that his funding is also supposed to be used to assist homeless children age 0-5. So when advocating for K-12, make sure to check how much the school district is directing this funding for younger children. You can find out the number of homeless children age 0-3 in the school district by going to SchoolHouse Connection "Infant and Toddler Homelessness Across 50 States: 2022-2023". 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jRWIuV