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 to larger local educational agencies notwithstanding the level of poverty in either. This is contrary to the intent of Congress, which is to direct more funding per formula student to local educational agencies with high concentrations of poverty, as measured by the number of formula students as a percentage of the aged 5–17 population of the local educational agency. (8) The National Center for Education Statistics confirmed these findings in a statistical analysis report dated May 2019. (9) Congress has a responsibility to correct this unintended inequity by reducing the power of the number weighting system relative to the percentage weighting system so that local educational agencies with high percentages of poverty but low numbers of students are not disadvantaged under the formulas used for grants under this part. . 3. Targeted grants to local educational agencies Section 1125(c)(2)(A) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6335(c)(2)(A) ) is amended to read as follows: (A) In general For each fiscal year for which the Secretary uses local educational agency data, the weighted child count used to determine a local educational agency’s grant under this section— (i) for each fiscal year through fiscal year 2023, is the larger of the two amounts determined under subparagraphs (B) and (C)