- Few states set aside more funds high-poverty schools, report says, By Renee Schoof, June 8, 2015, Lexington Herald-Leader: “Most states don’t provide extra funding for high-poverty schools, according to a new report about how public schools are funded. The report, issued Monday, also found that only a handful of states that cut money for education during the recession have increased it again during the economic recovery. The analysis was by researchers at Rutgers University and the Education Law Center, a nonprofit group that advocates for equal opportunity in education…”
- Inequitable school funding called ‘one of the sleeper civil rights issues of our time’, By Emma Brown, June 8, 2015, Washington Post: “Funding for public education in most states is inadequate and inequitable, creating a huge obstacle for the nation’s growing number of poor children as they try to overcome their circumstances, according to a set of reports released Monday by civil rights groups. Students in the nation’s highest-spending state (New York) receive about $12,000 more each year than students in the lowest-spending state (Idaho), according to the reports, and in most states school districts in wealthy areas spend as much or more per pupil than districts with high concentrations of poverty…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty