The fact is that
wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.
In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that
wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18
Not exact matches
A study by the New York State Association of
School Business Officials found that
spending in
wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the
spending in more impoverished
districts.
Wealthier schools in the state
spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer
districts.
He says if Syosset and other
wealthy districts didn't
spend so much on their
schools — if they cut some of their impressive programs and high salaries — they would not have to collect so much in taxes.
In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil
spending across
wealthy and poor
districts, state supreme courts overturned
school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in
school funding.
In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil
spending across
wealthy / high - income and poor
districts, state supreme courts overturned
school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.
Texas» approach of funneling money from
wealthy districts to poor ones as a way to equalize
school spending is likely to be severely curtailed in whatever
school finance plan emerges from the session, according to sources in the state.
Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically
spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82
school year, according to a recent state report.
In my city, New York, elite private
schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country
School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per st
School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the
wealthiest New York suburban
school districts spend per st
school districts spend per student.
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.
On a parallel track, in the 1960s, federal officials recognized that states and local
school districts were systematically
spending less to educate poor kids compared to
wealthier kids.
In Texas, it has been calculated that $ 2.4 billion of additional
school funds would be required to bring all
schools in that State up to the present level of expenditure of all but the
wealthiest districts — an amount more than double that currently being
spent on education.
Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent
schools, we found that few of the
districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the
wealthiest schools.30 A couple of
districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be
spent, such as banning their use to pay for
school staff.
The
wealthiest 10 percent of U.S.
school districts spend nearly 10 times more than the poorest 10 percent.
Every hour
spent drilling basic skills is an hour not
spent developing the higher - level thinking skills that are emphasized in
wealthier school districts.
This plan would give more assistance to poor
districts in an effort to lessen the inequality between what is
spent on education in
wealthy and poor
school districts.
It struck me how much
school spending has changed since I went to
school, when
wealthier districts consistently
spent -LSB-...]
Wentzell, who
spent most of her career in
wealthy school districts or selective choice programs, repeatedly asserted on the stand that «leadership is much more important than money.»
In Pennsylvania, for example, high - poverty
school districts spend 33 percent less per pupil than
wealthier districts in the state.114
Federal law says that
school districts must
spend the money in a way that provides extra help to poor children — that it not be used to provide basic educational services — and requires that Title I
schools have comparable services to those in
wealthier schools in the same
district.
A study by the New York State Association of
School Business Officials found that
spending in
wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the
spending in more impoverished
districts.
Cities in New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania generally feel the worst financial squeeze, according to the Education Law Center's
school funding fairness report, because their local funding sources favor
wealthier school districts over needier areas — and because they sometimes
spend more money than necessary in affluent suburbs.
Because
wealthy families tend to live in communities with larger tax bases and fewer needs, their children's
schools have typically
spent much more per student than have
schools in poor
districts.
Wednesday's list also comes weeks after a Forum report pointed to a «chronic and growing»
school spending gap in the state's
wealthy and low - income
school districts.