Equity Is the Key to Better School Funding
Posted by on March 24, 2014
Please see below for a recent study, in Education Week, on the positive effects of better school funding.
The article “Equity Is the Key to Better School Funding” is also available at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/02/19/21puckett.h33.html.
One of the key takeaways from the article was
“By optimizing all three of these elements, our modeling predicts that states can increase NAEP scores for low-income students by 1 percent to 2 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but in some states such a gain would bring as many as a quarter of low-income kids who were formerly not proficient in reading to proficiency. Given the connection between proficiency and college readiness, the odds of low-income students’ completing college would consequently be higher. Hundreds of thousands of kids would have a better chance at academic and career success.”
[Ed note: Thanks to Philadelphia Education Fund for bringing this article to our attention.]
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