When the state legislature meets each year, there's always a school fund equalization push coming from representatives of
some less affluent school districts throughout the state.
This move will create a two - tier school lunch program, forcing
less affluent school districts to purchase the less expensive, pink slime beef.
Not exact matches
When Taylor left SMMUSD, he was eager to apply his salad bar model to a
school district that was three times larger and far
less affluent.
In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that
affluent Bellevue
School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban
districts received
less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).
Affluent respondents were
less willing to spend more for their
district schools, but even among them a clear majority (52 percent) preferred an increase in expenditures.
The majority of these
schools are in more
affluent districts, where parents have college degrees and encourage their sons and their daughters to do well academically, or in
less advantaged communities where the community itself has rallied behind educational goals.
JOHN B. KING JR: Unfortunately, the history here is that in many
school districts, we see that there are
schools serving high - needs students where even the entire student population is in poverty, and they're actually spending 25 to 30 percent
less than a
school 10 blocks away that serves largely
affluent students.
But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which
affluent parents can help their
schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs
less affluent districts can only dream about.
An evaluation study of the
district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the
district's policy to give back some dollars, and the
district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other,
less affluent schools.68 Other
districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the
district, disinvest in their
schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69
The
district includes one
school in
less -
affluent Highwood, where students are predominantly Hispanic and low - income, and post the lowest passing rates on state tests in the
district.
That's only three percent
less than the ten most
affluent school districts across The Golden State.
Local
school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing
less -
affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund
schools in parts of the state where population is growing.
In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending
less per pupil in the poorest
school districts than they are in the most
affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need
schools at an even further disadvantage.
While this gives it one of the highest general fund budgets of any
school system in the state, several
districts that are from far
less affluent communities are not far from that funding level.
But that doesn't mean that
districts are spending equally in all
schools: The neediest
schools tend to employ teachers with
less experience than more
affluent schools, and
less - experienced teachers earn lower salaries.