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> Schools are already underfunded Do you have any way to show this? Do student outcomes actually vary with the amount of funding the school gets? At the very l
by DuskStar 6y ago
> Schools are already underfunded
Do you have any way to show this? Do student outcomes actually vary with the amount of funding the school gets? At the very least, the Kansas City Experiment [0] says that dumping infinite money into a failing school district doesn't materially impact outcomes.
0: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-06-22-9506220051-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-06-22-950622...
- hcknwscommenter 6y agoI show this by the fact that apparently, according to the article, teachers are being lured away from the public school to teach private pods in the pandemic. Keep in mind, public schools in CA are entirely distance learning. So, these teachers are taking on a health risk to take these private jobs. Obviously they are not being paid enough by the public school to forgo the health risk/higher pay.
- DuskStar 6y agoThat doesn't actually show anything about the impact on students, though. For all we know, doubling online class sizes doesn't change outcomes. (Because outcomes are already so poor, and might be basically comparable to doing nothing, for instance)