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<div>Thanks for the explanation. I thought it was something like that. I think the news releases will confuse the public, especially those who follow education issues less than I do. The articles will come across as spending $50 per gifted student rather than a pot of money with $50 per ADM based on the entire student population. Money spent on gifted students would depend on how many students are gifted, how many total students are in the district, how the district actually spends the money, etc. It should actually be more than $50 per gifted student if it is actually spent on gifted programs.</div>
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<div>Today's Dayton Daily News has an article about gifted programs and quotes Ann. It is a reprint from the Dispatch.</div>
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"ADM" stands for "Average Daily Membership." ADM is the number that is most commonly used to allocate "per pupil" funds. Basically, ADM is an average of the number of students who are either in attendance or who have excused absences each day of the two "count
weeks" in the spring and fall.
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<div>(Think of this as being the school equivalent of the "Sweeps Weeks" in the old days of TV when there would be a couple of weeks a year when Nielsen would sample viewers to calculate "ratings" for each show that would then determine how much advertisers
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<div>So, the general idea would be that a district that has an average of 1,000 kids show up each day during the count weeks would receive $50,000 to spend on gifted services. But bear in mind that allocation formulas rarely wind up being that simple at the
far end of the budget process...</div>
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<div>On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:27 PM, "(Mary Collier)" <<a __removedLink__1714259118__href="mailto:redfoxmary@aol.com">redfoxmary@aol.com</a>></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In the news releases, $50 per ADM was mentioned for gifted. What does that really mean in plain language? ADM is average daily??</font></div>
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<font size="2">equalized; is there accountabili<font size="2">ty<font size="2"> attached, is it more than you
<font size="2">received last year? T<font size="2">here are simply no answers to that at the moment.
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