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Tip 1 - Alternative to Traditional School Funding

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Cihan Guengoer | permalink

Budget shortfalls are forcing states to come up with novel solutions for the wide disparities between poor and affluent school districts. The latest reminder was a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in May that ordered the Legislature to increase spending for only the 31 poorest urban districts ("Court Orders New Jersey to Increase Aid to Schools," The New York Times, May 24). Not surprisingly, the decision did not please the other districts in the state. In light of the problem in New Jersey and in other states as well, perhaps it's time to consider what is known as weighted student...

For further reading: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/walt_gardners_reality_check/2011/07/alternative_to_traditional_school_funding.html ^[1]