A drop in a half empty bucket? In defense of deprivation in NY
First, here’s a primer and reading list on the Empire State of School Finance:
- New York State maintains one of the least equitable state school finance systems in the nation
- New York State actually allocates a ton of state aid to districts that need it least, exacerbating the disparities
- Reformy types in New York State thought, under these circumstances, it would be really cool to make any additional state aid a district receives contingent on adopting a teacher evaluation scheme based on their documented deeply flawed metrics!
- To ice that reformy cake, the legislature saw fit to – after slashing state aid year after year – impose a local property tax limit on districts so that they are unable to even raise the funds they would need to provide a sound basic education, if they could raise those funds locally.
