The report has some very misleading assertions about school funding. It asserts:
> On average, school districts spend around $11,000 per student each year, but the highest-poverty districts receive an average of $1,200 less per child than the least-poor districts, while districts serving the largest numbers of minority students get about $2,000 less than those serving the fewest students of color, according the study.
The source of that statistics is this report: https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FundingGaps20... (Figure 1). But that ignores federal funding, which is specifically targeted to the highest poverty districts. For example, Figure 1 shows Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois as states with the biggest (double digit) gaps. But accounting for federal funds, the gap disappears in New York, Maryland, and Illinois: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2... (change the drop down to state, local, and federal funding).
In Maryland, for example, Baltimore City has much higher spending per student than wealthy (and much more expensive) suburbs like Montgomery County: https://www.google.com/amp/s/conduitstreet.mdcounties.org/20....
> On average, school districts spend around $11,000 per student each year, but the highest-poverty districts receive an average of $1,200 less per child than the least-poor districts, while districts serving the largest numbers of minority students get about $2,000 less than those serving the fewest students of color, according the study.
The source of that statistics is this report: https://edtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FundingGaps20... (Figure 1). But that ignores federal funding, which is specifically targeted to the highest poverty districts. For example, Figure 1 shows Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois as states with the biggest (double digit) gaps. But accounting for federal funds, the gap disappears in New York, Maryland, and Illinois: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2... (change the drop down to state, local, and federal funding).
In Maryland, for example, Baltimore City has much higher spending per student than wealthy (and much more expensive) suburbs like Montgomery County: https://www.google.com/amp/s/conduitstreet.mdcounties.org/20....