Wednesday, 15 October 2014

[YEP-DC] New YEP-DC Guest Blog Post: The inequities in school spending in the D.C. area

"Fair is not always equal. Some students simply need more—funding, teachers, support services—to graduate college-and-career ready like their classmates. But states and districts do a notoriously bad job of targeting additional financial resources to schools serving high concentrations of students in need. And a new tool from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute allows us to see just how bad it is in our local schools—even when accounting for state and federal dollars."


Read more on Recess in this guest post, "School Spending Bears Little Relationship to Student Need," by Max Marchitello, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress. 


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