Not exact matches
Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how
school aid would be
distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed
to restoring
cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.
While it is absolutely true that educational opportunity, like economic opportunity, is unequally
distributed by race and class, the solutions for that are not going
to be found by rigging
cut scores but rather by substantially addressing something education reformers today generally discount: inequitable and inadequate
school funding.
Then access
to the newly «nationalized»
schools would have
to be
distributed on some fair basis
to local students, with the wealthy kids who don't make the
cut into their old
schools being sent
to the regular ones, without air conditioning or libraries.
Although
school funding was maintained in real - terms per pupil under the Coalition Government, all additional funding was provided via the Pupil Premium, targeted at particular pupils and therefore
distributed unevenly.2 Many
schools had
to use Pupil Premium funding simply
to plug the gaps caused by
cuts in the value of other funding.
The Fiscal Code contains language that
distributes new state funding for
schools through the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission's (BEFC) funding formula and brings
to an end the era of powerful lawmakers
cutting backroom deals
to dole out new funding
to schools.
Additionally, while the pupil premium is
distributed outside the NFF and our research indicates that it is currently being put
to good use, further
cuts to overall
school funding may limit its success.