How State and Local School Finance Systems Perpetuate Inequitable Student Spending
By Bruce D. Baker and Sean P. Corcoran
Education has been called the passport to the future. It has been defined as the great equalizer and lauded as being a key to unlocking the American Dream. Yet too many children—often low-income and minority children—are denied access to high-quality education because they attend schools that are underfunded and under-resourced. The sad reality is that gross funding inequities continue to exist in this country, and too often the schools serving students with the greatest needs receive the fewest resources This report tackles the serious issue of public school funding inequity by identifying often-overlooked features of school funding systems that exacerbate inequities in per-pupil spending rather than reduce them.
Read more and download this report here. This material was published by the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2012/09/11/37464/stealth-inequities-of-school-funding/)
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