Equitable Funding
Learn more about efforts to manage school funding to ensure fair allocations of resources
States
7 Issues Facing K-12 Budgets as COVID-Shocked Legislatures Reconvene
Competing priorities and no good choices about where to make deep cuts confront state lawmakers struggling to deal with the fiscal crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Education Funding
Devastated Budgets and Widening Inequities: How the Coronavirus Collapse Will Impact Schools
The recession brought on by the pandemic will make inequalities in schools worse.
Budget & Finance
U.S. Spends $23B More on White Districts Than Nonwhite Districts, Report Says
EdBuild, an advocacy group that pushes for equitable spending, says the gap amounts to $23 billion in state and local spending between predominantly white and predominantly nonwhite districts. Some state officials critique its methodology.
Education Funding
Equity in K-12 Funding More Complex Than Just Dollars
School finance experts and civil rights advocates increasingly focus on how school aid is distributed under state funding formulas, not simply on funding levels.
Quality Counts
Special Report
Quality Counts 2018: School Finance
Education Week puts the nation's K-12 finance performance under the microscope in this second installment of Quality Counts 2018, looking at how much gets spent state by state, and how fairly it's divvied up.
Education Funding
Opinion
A Bipartisan Approach to School Funding Boosts Equity
A broader funding base gives states more tools to improve public education, writes Steve Canavero, Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction.
Education
Opinion
Toward Equity and Coherence? California's Funding Formula in Year 3
The research team studying how California schools implement the state's Local Control Funding Formula issued its third yearly report with the basic message of "stay the course."
Equity & Diversity
New Survey Details How Teachers Use Their Own Money to Fill in Equity Gaps
A Scholastic nationally representative survey found that teachers spent $530 of their own money on classroom items—and the amount is much higher for teachers in high-poverty schools.
Budget & Finance
Nation's 'Disinvestment' in Public Schools Is Crippling Poor Students, Reports Say
Are prominent school funding advocates satisfied that states are now giving schools robust and well-targeted financial support? Not even close.
Education
Opinion
Funding Schools Fairly
With 51 percent of all students in public schools qualifying for free or reduced-price lunches, it's time for action.
School & District Management
Opinion
Equity Is the Key to Better School Funding
An equitable finance formula must consider whether the proportion of state aid is enough to level the playing field between rich and poor districts, write Marin Gjaja, J. Puckett, and Matt Ryder.
States
Equity in Achievement, Funding Are Hurdles for States Amid Progress
Quality Counts 2014 rates states and the nation on key student-performance and finance indicators.
Federal
Opinion
How to Make School Funding Fair
Shifting to statewide school funding systems would address inequities in the way education is paid for, writes Cynthia G. Brown.
Equity & Diversity
Feds Can Do More to Promote Funding Equity, Report Urges
A new set of "action steps" from a leading civil rights organization says that the federal government can, and should, do more to ensure that school funding is equitable.
