; and (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The current Basic Grant Formula for the distribution of funds under this part does not adequately target funds for schools with the highest concentrations of economically disadvantaged students. (2) The current formulas for distributing Targeted and Education Finance Incentive Grants is intended to allocate more funds per formula student to local educational agencies with higher concentrations of such students. (3) These formula use two weighting systems, one based on the percentage of the aged 5–17 population in a local education agency that is eligible to receive funds under this title (percentage weighting), and another based on the absolute number of such students (number weighting). Whichever of these weighting systems results in the highest total weighted formula student count for a local educational agency is the weighting system used for that agency in the final allocation of Targeted and Education Finance Incentive Grant funds. (4) Since the amount available to be distributed through these formulas is fixed by congressional appropriation, any gain in allocation share by one local educational agency causes a loss to other local educational agencies. (5) The number weighting alternative is often favorable to very large local educational agencies, even if the agency’s formula student percentage is low. But because smaller local education agencies simply do not have enough students to gain from number weighting, they are adversely affected under the number weighting alternative. (6) The Congressional Research Service has compared the funding allocations of each local education agency for school year 2021–2022 under the current dual weighting system with the funding allocation it would have that year if all local educational agencies had their student count weighted only by percentage weighting. (7) This data shows that the use of number weighting in these formulas has shifted funding from smaller