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Report: How much high-poverty schools get cheated on funding
- 12-01-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
A new U.S. Education Department report shows that more than 40 percent of schools across the country that serve mostly students from low-income families are being shortchanged when it comes to state and local funding. The findings won’t surprise anybody who follows equity issues in public education funding, as high-poverty schools have long had fewer resources than wealthier ones — even those schools that have received extra federal money through the Title 1 program that is aimed at helping needy students. The research, using data from the 2008-09 school year, provides new evidence that the students who need more help from public schools get the least. (more...)
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