60% of Counties To Receive Less in Title I Grants

Washington

Title I grants for more than 60 percent of the nation's counties will shrink next school year because of a federal decision last week to allocate the program's $7.1 billion using new child-poverty counts.

While more than half of the counties in the loss column will see a drop in remedial education aid of less than 5 percent, about 75 will see a 20 percent decrease in their allocations, according to an analysis of preliminary county-by-county allocations released last week by...