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Most school systems are underfunded right now because our state governments are still recovering from the 2008 financial crash.
by TimGebhardt 14y ago
Most school systems are underfunded right now because our state governments are still recovering from the 2008 financial crash.
- yardie 14y agoMany have been underfunded for much longer than that. It's only after the GFC that we realized how bad it has gotten. When it was only the schools in the poor districts the middle class didn't complain (and didn't care) but as the crisis spread to even upper-middle class districts it was hard to ignore. Now, overworked parents are blaming overworked school teachers about their underperforming kids.
- droithomme 14y agoDoes funding correlate with academic results? Many studies say it is not correlated or is negatively correlated. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2010/0428/No-correlation-between-education-funding-and-student-performance http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-B... http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/09/does-spending-more-on-education-improve-academic-achievement http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/09/does-spendi... http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.guber.cfm http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v7n2/datasets.... Some say they are positively correlated. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ575184&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ575184 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_...