ACE Act
Sponsored By: Representative Thompson (PA)
Introduced
Summary
This bill rewrites parts of Title I to shift more per-student funding to high-poverty, smaller school districts. It phases out the existing dual-weighting system that often favored very large districts and moves to a single preferred weighting after a two-year transition ending in FY2025.
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- Students and families in small, high-poverty local educational agencies (LEAs) should see higher grants per formula student when the single weighting takes effect in FY2026.
- Very large LEAs that benefited from the "number" weighting may receive relatively less Title I funding after FY2025 under the single-weighting approach.
- Education Finance Incentive Grant calculations are reorganized into three state equity-factor categories. Each category uses the larger-of-two weighting through FY2025 and then uses the clause (iii) single weighting from FY2026 onward.
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Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
More Title I help for high-poverty districts
This bill would change how the Education Department counts "weighted" students for Title I Targeted Grants and the Education Finance Incentive Grant (EFIG). Through fiscal year 2025, the Department would keep using the larger of two existing weighted counts. Beginning in fiscal year 2026, the Department would use only the single specified percentage-based weighting. The change would shift allocations so districts with higher shares of low-income children — including smaller, high-poverty districts — would get relatively more funding per formula student, while very large districts that benefited from count-based weighting could get relatively less. The bill would not change the total amount of Title I money available.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Thompson (PA)
PA • R
Cosponsors
Panetta
CA • D
Sponsored 3/18/2026
Roll Call Votes
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