Mind Those Gaps

Another Ed Trust funding gap report (pdf) released today. Sobering stuff. What makes these reports especially interesting is that they break the funding gaps out by demographic which more clearly shows that state school finance systems frequently disadvantage poor and minority students. This is a compelling tax-reform issue but it’s a political third rail in the states which is why so much of the action ends up being in the courts.

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