Specifications include, but are not limited to: Adequacy Study: 1. Recommend methods for routinely (biennially) reviewing educational adequacy. The recommendations will provide the Committees a process to follow for determining adequacy, rather than a particular dollar amount; 2. Analysis of the effect of concentrations of poverty on the adequacy targets and whether additional adjustments are necessary to provide adequate funding for local education agencies with high concentrations of poverty; 3. Identification of gaps in growth and achievement among student groups disaggregated by race and income and make recommendations on specific programs to address the gaps in growth or achievement; 4. Analysis of correlation between deficits in student performance and deficits in funding; 5. Review of adequacy cost studies completed in other states and provide a report on best practices in those states;