Equitable Funding
Learn more about efforts to manage school funding to ensure fair allocations of resources
Education
Opinion
Funding Schools Based on Need
Although districts serving needy students deserve more per-pupil funding than those serving affluent students, it's still important to have realistic expectations about outcomes.
Education Funding
CAP Study Cites Hurdles to Funding Equity
Property tax and aid formulas stymie states ability to help poorer districts, a Center for American Progress report concludes.
Education
Rural Vermont Studies Funding System, Finds Equity
Vermont, a primarily rural state, appears to have figured out what baffles many others: an equitable education funding system, according to a new report.
School & District Management
New Equity Panel Digs Into Funding
The way schooling is paid for in the United States needs to be radically changed so that all students have equal opportunity, big names in education policy said at the first meeting of a new commission set up by the Obama administration.
Equity & Diversity
Ed. Dept. Creates Commission on School Finance Equity
The commission will recommend ways that federal policy could address funding disparities.
Education Funding
R.I. Aims at Equity in Funding Formula
For the first time in more than 15 years, Rhode Island has a statewide school funding formula that supporters say will more equitably dole out money to its public schools.
Education Funding
New R.I. School Funding Formula Aims at Equity
The new law sets a baseline amount for each student in the state and adds money to account for those in poverty.
Education Funding
Explainer
School Finance
Running schools—and improving them—cannot take place without the proper resources. Many think that money is biggest resource to consider.
Education
Letter to the Editor
‘Tipping Point’ for Choice Awaits Full Funding Equity
I suggest that we will not reach the “tipping point” until all parents have full choice over the education of their children.
Education
A State Capitals Roundup
Federal Way District Sues Wash. State Over Funding
A school district is suing Washington state over the state’s school funding formula, charging that education dollars are not distributed equitably among districts.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Credit-Card Fund Raising: Threat to Finance Equity?
Your article about school fund raising through credit-, debit-, and club-card rebate program neglected one very important aspect of the concept: Schools in areas with more affluent parents can benefit much, much more than schools drawing from poorer areas.
Education
Chart: Funding for Equity
Just a few states are targeting technology funds where they are most needed by allocating additional dollars to schools with greater technology needs or those with fewer resources.
Education Funding
Explainer
School Finance
Running schools—and improving them—cannot take place without the proper resources, and it all starts with money.
Education Funding
School Finance: Slowly, the Burden Shifts to the States
In 1900, when the town of Stow in eastern Massachusetts was paying Josephine Newhall the less-than-princely sum of $323 to teach three grades for one semester, the townspeople more than likely picked up the tab.
