![]() School-finance reforms and, to a lesser extent, increases in federal education funding have eliminated the gaps between schools serving more- and less-affluent students, at least when those schools are within the same state.ĬW: “Eliminating the SES gaps means racial/ethnic funding gaps disappear, too.” Over the last two decades, the evidence that “money matters” to school performance has become much stronger and shows that school funding is even more important for students from poor families.ĬW: “School funding remains unequal across low- and high-income schools.” ![]() Not anymore. School funding has risen dramatically over the last few decades, especially in schools serving more students from low-income families.ĬW: “Better school funding makes a difference to students from low-income families.” Specifically, this brief addresses the following ideas that have become conventional wisdom in some quarters:Ĭonventional wisdom (CW): “Students from traditionally disadvantaged backgrounds attend poorly funded schools.”
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