Cloaking Inequity: Finding the Keys to School Funding in Your Pocket
So you are probably saying to yourself. DUH!! ELLs are segregated. Poverty does matter in schools. There are performance differences between schools. There is a difference in spending between high performing and low performing schools. Just like the keys that I found in the pocket of my suit jacket. It is not lost upon us what is happening in schools. In fact I have personally watched Texas and Florida policymakers joust each other in think tank convenings for the title of who is spending less on public education. They are pretty darn proud of the underfunding. Because they relish the underspending and they prefer to monetize our social problems, they look everywhere else for public policy, instead of addressing the obvious reasons for low performing schools.
Moral of the blog post? Dig into your pockets instead of the dirty laundry and everywhere else.
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