Fattah highlights think-tank report showing fewer dollars spent on students of color | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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Fattah highlights think-tank report showing fewer dollars spent on students of color

by Dale Mezzacappa

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.

The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, along with U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattahand the National Council of La Raza, issued the study.

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