Week 3 Part 1

District 1:
93.3% Economically Disadvantaged
$3893.754 Total Refined ADA Adjusted for Decline
$5555.815 Weighted Average Daily Attendance
District 2:
20.7% Economically Disadvantaged
$4032.937 Total Refined ADA Adjusted for Decline
$4794.076 Weighted Average Daily Attendance

District 1 receives a higher WADA due to a larger number of students in special populations. An economically disadvantaged percentage of 93.3% for District 1 compared to 20.7% for District 2 would account for a higher WADA. In addition, District 1's 48% LEP compared to District 2's 2% and District 1's 41% bilingual and 24% CTE compared to 2% and 14% in District 2 would certainly account for the differences in WADA.

This was an eye-opening assignment for me. I had heard about WADA, and I knew that it affected funding, but I had never had any real experience looking at it in a particular district. Even though the purpose of WADA is to account for the increased cost in educating student in special populations, it does not actually make the districts equal. While District 1 received a higher WADA, they had so many more disadvantages to overcome that their funding was not equitable when compared to District 2.