Public schools are not funded fairly.
Every child does not receive equitable resources or even close to what they need.
The state and federal government provide some funding, but they leave it up to each neighborhood to take the brunt of the burden.
So the majority of funding comes from local tax revenues – rich communities give their kids more than enough and poor ones struggle to give them enough to even get by.
This means things like class size, access to tutoring and remediation, extracurricular activities, advanced placement courses, field trips, counseling, even access to a school nurse often depends on how rich of a community kids live in.
It’s a backward and barbaric way of supporting children – a kind of economic Darwinism that gives the richest kids the most advantages from the very start while holding back everyone else.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but don’t look to the state or federal government to fix it.
No matter who has been in power in the Oval Office or held majorities in Congress, national lawmakers don’t seem to care much about public schools unless it has to do CONTINUE READING: A New Children’s Fund – Reducing Student Inequality Through Allegheny County Council | gadflyonthewallblog