Jersey Jazzman: Money DOES Matter

Jersey Jazzman: Money DOES Matter:

Money DOES Matter

by Duke

One of the greatest fallacies that the reformies try to push is that money doesn't matter; for example, here'sLaura Waters:

For decades now we’ve shoveled money at these schools, at least the ones in Abbott districts. That has had little impact, none in some cases. The kids who live in Camden or Trenton (or other districts in the list) have no access to higher-performing schools, precisely because of NJ’s “intense racial and socio-economic segregation,” a product of various historical factors like our affinity for home rule, the uneven enforcement of the Mt. Laurel housing decisions, our school funding structure, the limitations of our Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. [emphasis mine]

Really? "Little impact" from the Abbott decision, and then SFRA?

Howard Wainer:

But focusing on the difference blinds us to what has been a remarkable