Week 3 Part 3 - Intent of WADA

The intent of the WADA is to help districts who do not receive as much money from local revenue.  From this, District 2 has a significantly larger amount of teachers than District 1.  This comes from the difference in the revenue brought into the district.  District 1 has a larger ECD percentage than District 2, so they have become to receive more funding to make up for the reduced amount of tax money. 

This increase in funding has helped with different programs for District 1.  They receive more funding for Special Education than District 2.  District 1 also receives more funding for Career and Technology, Compensatory Education, and Bilingual Education.  The difference between some of these programs is due to District 1 having a 100% Hispanic Population along with a 93.3% Economic Disadvantaged Population.  This is different for District 2 because they have a smaller Hispanic population which is why they may not need as much bilingual funding.  The number of students per teacher is about the same in both districts.  The Compensatory Education money is due to the high number of Economic Disadvantaged students that District 1 has.  This allows the district to have some of the same types of programs that other districts have.  The money for Career and Technology is larger for District 2 because they may need more students ready for work as they graduate.  Since this community has a high number of economic disadvantaged families, many students must go to work, so the Career and Technology program is a must for this school.  This program will prepare students for jobs when they graduate so they are ready to enter into society if they need to.

District 2 has more teachers than District 1, which is due to the funding that District 2 has.  This increase of funding is primarily due to the larger property values in District 2.  This means that they may be able to have more intervention teachers than District 1 which also will help raise student scores. 

Seeing the differences in both districts allows District 1 some of the same opportunities that students in District 2 have.  With public school funding, we are able to see how schools differ with programs since the difference is due to funding and total revenue for each district.  Since those amounts are different, each district may be equipped differently and may have different programs that each district may need rather than them being the same across the board.