The Dramatic Retreat from Funding Equity in New Jersey: Evidence from the Census Fiscal Survey
I have explained in numerous previous posts how New Jersey is among those states that operates a reasonably progressive state school finance system, that New Jersey, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s put the effort into disrupting the relationship between local community income and school spending. And, during that period, New Jersey’s low income students appear to have experienced some gains, at least when compared with other demographically similar states. Massachusetts, like New Jersey, also improved the progressiveness of its state school funding system over the same period, but Connecticut not so much. Here are some figures from a previous post:
Figure 1. Disrupting the relationship between income and school spending 1990 to 2004
Figure 2. NAEP Gains of Children qualified for
Figure 1. Disrupting the relationship between income and school spending 1990 to 2004
Figure 2. NAEP Gains of Children qualified for