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Results-Based Funding Formula Rewards Fewer Students in Poverty
Results-Based Funding
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Results-based funding awards, largely reflect the background of students in a school and not necessarily the impact that a school has on student learning. Standardized test scores, used as a snapshot, are strongly correlated to student poverty. This is why there is so much work in education to develop measures of student growth such as value-added or student growth percentiles.
Overall, schools receiving results-based funding awards serve:
- FEWER students in poverty
- FEWER students with disabilities
- FEWER english learners
- FEWER Latino, African American and Native American students than the state average.
In the Media
AZEdNews article Results-based funding bypasses vulnerable students.
KJZZ interviews ASBA Director of Research, Dr. Aportela:
Results-Based School Funding Not Going Where It’s Needed Most.
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Results Based PowerPoint
2017 – 2018
Despite the Higher $400 per Pupil Amount, Awards to Fewer Schools With Fewer Students Result in This Skewed Distribution Below:
- 62% of the $38.6M dollars in awards are to low-poverty schools (those receiving $225 per pupil)
- 74% of the 150,191 students in schools receiving an award are enrolled in low-poverty schools (those receiving $225 per pupil)

Public Schools Receiving Results-Based Funding Awards Also Serve Fewer:
- Students in poverty
- Students with disabilities
- English learners
- Latino, African American, Native American students than the state average.
- Standardized test scores, used as a snapshot, are strongly correlated to student poverty. This is why there is so much work in education to develop measures of student growth such as value-added or student growth percentiles.

Things to Consider for 2018-19
Results-based funding awards largely reflect the background of students in a school and not necessarily the impact that a school has on student learning.
- Standardized test scores, used as a snapshot, are strongly correlated to student poverty. This is why there is so much work in education to develop measures of student growth such as value-added or student growth percentiles.
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