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 * District 1** Compensatory Education Funds: $3,835,006


 * District 2** Compensatory Education Funds: $633,369

Compensatory funding is money dedicated to servicing students with special needs. It is that additional funding intended to close the gap between at-risk and/or disadvantaged students and their regular ed counterparts. The amount of compensatory ed money is determined by the number of at-risk students and their needs within a district. We can see from the above comparison that the funding for District 1 is substantially higher than that of District 2. This is a direct result of the number of LEP,SPED, and Bilingual students who attend District 1. The funding discrepancy between districts is basically proportionate to that of the discrepancy between levels of at-risk students in each district. For many districts, just as the one mentioned above, compensatory education funds are a vital part of budgeting.