,i #aaith ,,congress #b;d ,session ,h4 ,r4 #gihi ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of ,,representatives ,march #ah1 #bjbf,mr4 ,thompson of ,pennsylvania 7for himself and ,mr4 ,panetta7 introduced the following bill2 which was referred to the ,committee on ,education and ,workforce ,a ,,bill ,to amend the weights used to determine amounts for targeted grants and education finance incentive grants for local educational agencies under title ,i of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife4 #a4 ,short title ,this ,act may be cited as the ,all ,children are ,equal ,act or the ,,ace ,act4 #b4 ,findings ,section #aabe;,,aa of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife 7#bj ,u4,s4,c4 #fccf7 is amended-- 7#a7 by amending the heading to read as follows3 #aabe;,,aa4 ,increase grants per formula student as the percentage of economically disadvantaged children in a local educational agency increases 2 and 7#b7 by amending subsection 7a7 to read as follows3 7a7 ,findings ,congress makes the following findings3 7#a7 ,the current ,basic ,grant ,formula for the distribution of funds under this part does not adequately target funds for schools with the highest concentrations of economically disadvantaged students4 7#b7 ,the current formulas for distributing ,targeted and ,education ,finance ,incentive ,grants is intended to allocate more funds per formula student to local educational agencies with higher concentrations of such students4 7#c7 ,these formula use two weighting systems1 one based on the percentage of the aged #e-ag population in a local education agency that is eligible to receive funds under this title 7percentage weighting71 and another based on the absolute number of such students 7number weighting74 ,whichever of these weighting systems results in the highest total weighted formula student count for a local educational agency is the weighting system used for that agency in the final allocation of ,targeted and ,education ,finance ,incentive ,grant funds4 7#d7 ,since the amount available to be distributed through these formulas is fixed by congressional appropriation1 any gain in allocation share by one local educational agency causes a loss to other local educational agencies4 7#e7 ,the number weighting alternative is often favorable to very large local educational agencies1 even if the agency's formula student percentage is low4 ,but because smaller local education agencies simply do not have enough students to gain from number weighting1 they are adversely affected under the number weighting alternative4 7#f7 ,the ,congressional ,research ,service has compared the funding allocations of each local education agency for school year #bjba-bjbb under the current dual weighting system with the funding allocation it would have that year if all local educational agencies had their student count weighted only by percentage weighting4 7#g7 ,this data shows that the use of number weighting in these formulas has shifted funding from smaller to larger local educational agencies notwithstanding the level of poverty in either4 ,this is contrary to the intent of ,congress1 which is to direct more funding per formula student to local educational agencies with high concentrations of poverty1 as measured by the number of formula students as a percentage of the aged #e-ag population of the local educational agency4 7#h7 ,the ,national ,center for ,education ,statistics confirmed these findings in a statistical analysis report dated ,may #bjai4 7#i7 ,congress has a responsibility to correct this unintended inequity by reducing the power of the number weighting system relative to the percentage weighting system so that local educational agencies with high percentages of poverty but low numbers of students are not disadvantaged under the formulas used for grants under this part4 4 #c4 ,targeted grants to local educational agencies ,section #aabe7;c77#b77;,a7 of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife 7#bj ,u4,s4,c4 #fcce7;c77#b77;,a77 is amended to read as follows3 7,a7 ,in general ,for each fiscal year for which the ,secretary uses local educational agency data1 the weighted child count used to determine a local educational agency's grant under this section-- 7i7 for each fiscal year through fiscal year #bjbe1 is the larger of the two amounts determined under subparagraphs 7,b7 and 7,c72 and 7ii7 for fiscal year #bjbf and each succeeding fiscal year1 is the amount determined under subparagraph 7,b74 4 #d4 ,education ,finance ,incentive ,grant ,program 7a7 ,states with an equity ,factor less than #j4aj ,section #aabe;,a7d77#a77;,b77i7 of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife 7#bj ,u4,s4,c4 #fccg7;d77#a77;,b77i77 is amended to read as follows3 7i7 ,in general ,for each fiscal year for which the ,secretary uses local educational agency data1 the weighted child count used to determine a local educational agency's grant under this section-- 7,i7 for each fiscal year through fiscal year #bjbe1 is the larger of the two amounts determined under clauses 7ii7 and 7iii72 and 7,,ii7 for fiscal year #bjbf and each succeeding fiscal year1 is the amount determined under clause 7iii74 4 7b7 ,states with an equity factor greater than or equal to #j4aj and less than #j4bj ,section #aabe;,a7d77#b77;,b77i7 of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife 7#bj ,u4,s4,c4 #fccg7;d77#b77;,b77i77 is amended to read as follows3 7i7 ,in general ,for each fiscal year for which the ,secretary uses local educational agency data1 the weighted child count used to determine a local educational agency's grant under this section-- 7,i7 for each fiscal year through fiscal year #bjbe1 is the larger of the two amounts determined under clauses 7ii7 and 7iii72 and 7,,ii7 for fiscal year #bjbf and each succeeding fiscal year1 is the amount determined under clause 7iii74 4 7c7 ,states with an equity factor greater than or equal to #j4bj ,section #aabe;,a7d77#c77;,b77i7 of the ,elementary and ,secondary ,education ,act of #aife 7#bj ,u4,s4,c4 #fccg7;d77#c77;,b77i77 is amended to read as follows3 7i7 ,in general ,for each fiscal year for which the ,secretary uses local educational agency data1 the weighted child count used to determine a local educational agency's grant under this section-- 7,i7 for each fiscal year through fiscal year #bjbe1 is the larger of the two amounts determined under clauses 7ii7 and 7iii72 and 7,,ii7 for fiscal year #bjbf and each succeeding fiscal year1 is the amount determined under clause 7iii74 4