Funding at-risk compensatory programs: An urban high school case study |
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| Authors: | Dr Augustina Reyes |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Educational Administration, Texas A&M University, 77843-4226 College Station, TX |
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| Abstract: | A Texas urban high school with a 98 percent minority student enrollment was selected to conduct a micro-finance analysis on
site-based at-risk per pupil costs. A process was developed to define site-based state compensatory education (SCE) and to
account for all students receiving direct and indirect state compensatory education services. Program costs data were analyzed
to develop a relationship between full-time equivalent (FTE) state categorical program costs and regular education program
costs. At-risk student background characteristics were defined using a parent home survey, conducted with a sample of twenty
at-risk students and twenty regular education students. The data revealed that 68 percent of the students exhibited one or
more of the state-defined at-risk variables; the highest program costs produced the highest achievement: and based on student
backgroud characteristics, all of the students, including regular funded students, were at risk. |
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