While not every dollar a school spends directly improves academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school - finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more
equitable distribution of resources between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.
Not exact matches
Such research needs to clearly establish the relationship
between state funding systems, the
equitable distribution of school
resources, and student outcomes.
To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage
of Brown is also a large number
of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for
equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.