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America’s $23 Billion School Funding Gap: Despite Court Rulings on Equity, New Report Finds Startling Racial Imbalance
America’s $23 Billion School Funding Gap: Despite Court Rulings on Equity, New Report Finds Startling Racial Imbalance
America’s $23 Billion School Funding Gap: Despite Court Rulings on Equity, New Report Finds Startling Racial Imbalance
New Report: Most States Lack Power to Merge Struggling Districts With Wealthy Neighbors, Leaving Poor Districts Stranded
New Report: Most States Lack Power to Merge Struggling Districts With Wealthy Neighbors, Leaving Poor Districts Stranded
New Report: Most States Lack Power to Merge Struggling Districts With Wealthy Neighbors, Leaving Poor Districts Stranded
Citing Racial Motive, Federal Appeals Court Blocks Alabama School Secession Plan
Citing Racial Motive, Federal Appeals Court Blocks Alabama School Secession Plan
Citing Racial Motive, Federal Appeals Court Blocks Alabama School Secession Plan
When Communities Secede From School Districts, Inequity & Segregation Follow. But 30 States Let It Happen Anyway
“A National Disgrace”: Explaining the Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Public Schools
EdBuild: How a New Player in the Ed Reform Game Is Skipping the Usual Battle Lines to Focus on Funding
New Map: School Funding Inequality, Often Measured By State, Is Far Worse Nationally Than You Think
Ahead of the Heard
Agreeing with Trump, Sort of? Political Correctness and Segregation
The Atlantic
The Most Segregating School-District Borders in America
Education in 2015 Visualized
The Beat DC
School Districts Serving Students of Color Fall Short on Funding by $23 Billion
Blavity
Predominantly White School Districts Receive $23 Billion More In Funding Than Mostly Black And Brown Districts, Report Finds
Bustle
Data Showing American Schools Are Still Segregated By Race & Class Should Inspire A Call For Major Change
Care2
Inequality Prevails: White Public Schools Much Better Funded Than Nonwhite Schools
Chalkbeat
Rise & Shine: Signal Mountain leaders look to Shelby County as model for school district secession
Signal Mountain leaders look to Shelby County as model for school district secession
New report blasts Colorado for allowing tiny districts to net more school funding by breaking away from larger districts
School districts across the country are breaking apart, but Indianapolis is already divided
Rise & Shine: Memphis-Shelby County spotlighted in national report on school district secession
Memphis-Shelby County spotlighted in national report on school district secession
In Detroit and across the U.S., school district borders segregate in a dramatic way
Christian Science Monitor
Where are America's most economically segregated schools?
CityLab
CityLab
Where School District Borders Are Invisible Fences
Watch Poverty in School Districts Escalate Before Your Very Eyes
How School Districts Seal Their Students Into Poverty
CNN
5 things to know for February 28: North Korea, Cohen, India & Pakistan, school funds
A new report finds predominantly white school districts get $23 billion more in funding than nonwhite ones
ColorLines
REPORT: American Students Are Still Segregated by Income, Race
Daily Kos
A tale of two fountains
Education Dive
Report: Significant funding gaps persist between white and low-income, nonwhite districts
When neighborhoods break out of larger districts, the remaining schools suffer
EdBuild ranks nation's most segregating school district borders
49% of students attend school in high-poverty districts
Education Next
What We're Watching: Maps Showing How School Funding Works in Each State
Education Post
EdBuild: Our Focus is Funding
Education Week
United States Spends $23 Billion More on White Districts Than Nonwhite Ones
U.S. Spends $23B More on White Districts Than Nonwhite Districts, Report Says
In District Consolidations, States Leave Poor Residents Adrift, Study Says
Appeals Court Rules Mostly White City Can't Form Segregated School District
Schools Become Whiter and Wealthier in Communities That Secede From Districts
District Hot Spots Identified for Economic Segregation
Report Names the 50 Most-Segregating School District Boundaries by Income
EdBuild Report Spotlights 50 Most-Segregating School District Borders
Two Proposals, Two Ways to Dole Out Title I Money
Essence
New Report Shows Non-White Schools Receive $23 Billion Less In Funding
FiveThirtyEight
Significant Digits For Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019
The Week In Data: Road Trips, School Segregation, And Bowling Strategy
Flypaper Blog
America's most segregating school district borders
Nuance is complicated, but sometimes it matters
Fusion
These are the most staggeringly unequal neighboring school districts in America
Governing
"Island" School Districts: A Story of Haves and Have Nots
The Grade
"Best of the Week"
The Grio
‘We still have a terribly inequitable system’: Study finds $23 billion school funding disparity
The Hill
Majority-white school districts received $23 billion more in funding than nonwhite ones: report
The Hollywood Unlocked
Photo Source: TNEWS New Report Proves Non-White School Districts Receive $23B Less Funding Than Those Predominantly White
The Huffington Post
These School District Borders Separate The Haves From The Have Nots
This Map Shows How Many More Students Are Living In Poverty Than 9 Years Ago
Jezebel
Majority White School Districts Are Way, Way Richer Than Majority Nonwhite School Districts
Los Angeles Times
The problem with your lottery tickets and school funding
Mashable
The borders of rich and poor that divide America
Mother Jones
A Federal Appeals Court Just Dealt a Blow to School Segregation
Mother Jones
This List Shows You How Divided America’s Schools Are
"Sorry, I'm Not Taking This Test"
National Education Policy Center
Education Law Prof Blog: The Nation's Most Socio-economically Segregated Schools
Newsmax
Report: Majority-White Schools Get $23B More Than Non-Whit
Newsweek
WHITES ONLY: SCHOOL SEGREGATION IS BACK, FROM BIRMINGHAM TO SAN FRANCISCO
The New York Times
$23 Billion Funding Gap Exists Between White and Nonwhite School Districts, Report Finds
An F-Minus for America’s Schools From a Fed-Up Judge
Next City
New School Funding Report Shows the Effects of Segregation Persist
NPR
Limited School Choice For Native Americans; Oakland Teachers Reach Deal To End Strike
Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money
The Fight Over Teacher Salaries: A Look At The Numbers
DeVos Appoints CEO Of A Student Loan Company To Head Federal Aid Agency
The 50 Most Segregating School Borders In America
'Islands' That Separate Education Haves From Have-Nots
Opportunity Lives
EdBuild Seeks to Bring Innovation to Struggling School Systems
Pacific Standard
Non-White School Districts Get $23 Billion Less Funding Than White Ones
Non-White School Districts Get $23 Billion Less Funding Than White Ones
Non-White School Districts Get $23 Billion Less Funding Than White Ones
How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind
How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind
How Perverse Incentives Leave Struggling School Districts Behind
Seceding school districts leave vulnerable kids behind
It’s Time We Took a Closer Look at Our School District Borders
PBS NewsHour
White, wealthy communities are forming their own school districts
Politico
Morning Education: Shifting attitudes on vouchers, teacher pay
The Progressive
Does School Choice Help Close the Graduation Gap?
RealClearLife
Predominantly White Schools Received $23 Billion More than Diverse Districts: Report
School Diversity Notebook
SD News Roundup: The Different Faces of Segregation
ThinkProgress
Amid strikes in multiple states, students take a stand in support of their teachers
Univision
Vecinos desiguales: las mayores diferencias entre distritos escolares adyacentes en EEUU
The Urban Edge
Urban Review: Unequal School Funding, A Note on Upzoning, Covering Pedestrian Deaths and More
The Most Economically Segregated School District Boundaries in the Country
U.S. News
White Students Get More K-12 Funding Than Students of Color: Report
White Students Get More K-12 Funding Than Students of Color: Report
White Students Get More K-12 Funding Than Students of Color: Report
Research: Sweeping School Consolidations Bear Mixed Results
Research: Sweeping School Consolidations Bear Mixed Results
Research: Sweeping School Consolidations Bear Mixed Results
Cash-Strapped School Districts Left Behind by Wealthier Neighbors
Cash-Strapped School Districts Left Behind by Wealthier Neighbors
Cash-Strapped School Districts Left Behind by Wealthier Neighbors
Court Blocks White Alabama Community from Creating Its Own School System
Court Blocks White Alabama Community from Creating Its Own School System
Court Blocks White Alabama Community from Creating Its Own School System
White, Wealthy Communities Want Their Own Schools
The Quiet Wave of School District Secessions
The Most Economically Segregated School Districts
Voice of America
Study: Majority-White US Schools Get $23 Billion More Than Non-White
Vox
School Segregation Didn’t Go Away. It Just Evolved.
How school district boundaries are gerrymandered to keep poor kids segregated
Wall Street Journal
New Districts Reignite School Segregation Debate
The Washington Post
Report finds $23 billion racial funding gap for schools
Report finds $23 billion racial funding gap for schools
Report finds $23 billion racial funding gap for schools
The Sad Story of Public Education in St. Louis
The Sad Story of Public Education in St. Louis
The Sad Story of Public Education in St. Louis
In St. Louis schools, water fountains are symbols of inequality again
A Southern city wants to secede from its school district, raising concerns about segregation
Detroit teachers head back to work, but education crisis remains unresolved
One alarming map shows what today’s school ‘reformers’ are missing
Map: How student poverty has increased since the Great Recession
Little Rock schools desegregated 59 years old. Now ‘we are retreating to 1957.’
Poverty rates in every U.S. school district, in one map
Yahoo News
School segregation is getting worse as wealthier, white areas form splinter districts
Youth Today
REPORTS $23 Billion – The Disparity in Funding Between White and Nonwhite School Districts