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Balanced District Funding “Next Educational Equity Battleground” Under ESSA?

Balanced District Funding “Next Educational Equity Battleground” Under ESSA?

February 25, 2018

When Congress passed ESSA in 2015, writes The 74’s Mark Keierleber, it “included a little-noticed, bipartisan provision that requires states to report per-pupil spending at the school level.” According to advocates and researchers, this change “is likely to expose disparities in the way some districts divide resources among their schools.”