A national
report released Wednesday showed that far fewer dollars are spent per student in schools with predominantly Black and Latino enrollments, and that staffing those schools with less experienced teachers accounts for much of the spending disparity.
Federal policy allows this disparity to happen by letting districts budget for individual schools by using an average teacher salary for the entire district instead of the actual salaries of teachers in each building, the report said. Overwhelmingly, less-experienced teachers work in schools serving poor students of color