In today’s Hechinger Report, Andre Perry draws some hasty and misinformed conclusions on where Democrats in general and DFER in particular stand on certain education issues. Perry states, for example, that “DFER makes no reference to regressive tax policy and inequitable funding formulas that keep families poor and schools under-resourced.”
Apparently, Perry didn’t look very hard. To help him out, we’ve put together a short – illustrative, not exhaustive – reading list of commentary and advocacy on school funding from our website.
For more, go to our site search bar and enter “school funding,” “equity,” etc.
Feds Target Education Funds Because States Won’t; So Why Do Republicans Want to Enable States to Shortchange Poor Schools? July 2011.
On Federal Education Funding: Serve High-Need Populations, Drive Innovation & Boost Effectiveness. April 2012
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has fought to increase education funding for the children of Philadelphia and to improve the influx of cash by proposing new taxes on cigarettes. Sadly, his proposals have been ignored by leadership at both the city and state level.