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Tag: Inequality

  • Tech Execs Buy Better Public Schools— For Their Towns.

    A recent article in EdSource covers the funding inequality between school districts created by “Basic Aid” Districts. I’ve written about funding inequality in Solidarity News before (SN Oct 2024, 2022…

  • Counted Out: film and math politics review: Can we achieve personal fulfillment and save the world by just learning algebra?

    “Counted Out” is is a very well-intentioned, sweet film about the importance of math education. Unfortunately, it is at root fatally misguided, and thereby damaging to both education and equality.…

  • Judge Rejects 45 Williams Complaints

    Approves year-long subs because teachers “don’t want to teach in Richmond” Judge Terry Mockler dismissed all 45 Williams complaints against the West Contra Costa Unified regarding both unsafe conditions and…

  • Unequal School Bonds

    Last February, Public Advocates sued the state of California because the current school facilities bonds facilitates inequality between poorer and wealthier districts. From their filing: .  “California’s system of funding…

  • “Basic Aid”

    How can different school districts spend such different amounts of money per student when LCFF funding from the state of California is the same for each student, with supplemental money…

  • Is School Funding Equal?

                Look at This!   Expenditure data is from SARC reports filed with CDE We are told that school funding in California is equal, but…

  • #15 Parcel Taxes: Unequal by Design

    Parcel taxes are the only way for California school districts to get additional tax funding beyond their allocation from the state. Parents, and educators want more money for schools— and…

  • #6 Unequal Funding:

                A Tale of Two Schools California is #32 among the 50 states in per pupil expenditures— but the reality is worse than that. Teacher…

  • #4 Dear BHS Colleagues,

    On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day I want to set aside worries about coping with the pandemic for a moment, to address the attempts to close the Black/White educational…