Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey proposed a budget last week that increases state aid to poor school districts while cutting funds
for wealthy suburban districts.
Not exact matches
The elites, the
wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school
districts and have sought refuge in affluent
suburban districts for their own children.
Kozol points out that the
wealthiest suburban school
districts surrounding New York City,
for example, spend more per pupil to educate their mostly white student bodies than the city spends to educate its mostly minority population.