EdTrust: Funding Gaps 2006
EdTrust has released a report detailing the many ways that the most needy students are shortchanged by the existing school funding formulas. The report Funding Gaps 2006 is accompanied by a press release:
School finance policy choices at the federal, state, and district levels systematically stack the deck against students who need the most support from their schools, according to a report released today by the Education Trust.The report contains an interesting inventory of policy problems, some of which could easily be fixed. My take is that California and SFUSD do a pretty decent job of avoiding these problems. As much as I hate the loss of local control, this state does do a decent job at distributing school funds equitably. There is always room for improvement, but for the most part this report takes aim at problems that are more pronounced in other states and other districts.
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SFUSD charges each school site the same amount of money (~$70,000) per teacher, regardless of that teacher's actual salary. Some school sites (mostly on the east side of the city) have young staffs that take home considerably less than $70k, whereas other schools with highly experienced staff (mostly on the west side) take home more than $70k. Schools with a higher percentage of less experienced faculty are actually subsidizing schools with more experienced teachers. ...And guess which students are predominantly served by the school sites with these well-paid teachers?
I agree with you. This is a major equity concern in the district. EdTrust has written about this in the past. But I did not see it featured in this report. (But I may have missed it. I skimmed it.)
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