|Goal:||Ensure effective educational opportunities for all
students regardless of race, national origin, sex, disability,
and socioeconomic status.| |Objective:||To ensure that states
and local governments provide equitable levels of funding to all
of their school districts to enable them to meet the educational
needs of all of their students.| |How progress is measured:||The
difference in funding between the highest- and lowest-poverty
districts in current per pupil expenditures from state and local
funds (actual and weighted)| |Why is this measure
important?||School districts in states that do not distribute
funding equitably may not have sufficient resources to provide a
high-quality education to their students. We therefore compare
the level of state and local funding per-pupil in high-poverty
districts and low-poverty districts within each state. Based on
an assumption that additional per-pupil funding is appropriate
to meet the additional needs of high-poverty students, the
Dashboard indicator allows us