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> Poor kids and minority kids wind up in classrooms that are doubly starved for resources. People always assume this to be the case, but it doesn't seem to be
by bnralt 4y ago
> Poor kids and minority kids wind up in classrooms that are doubly starved for resources.
People always assume this to be the case, but it doesn't seem to be true whenever I look at specific school districts. For example, D.C. and Baltimore public schools have a student body with _many_ more poor and minority children than the national average, and the per pupil spending at these schools is also well above the national average.
- junofan 4y agoIt’s effective rhetoric to direct funding to underperforming schools, as the data shows.