Debate on Weighted Student Funding
Joe Williams with some interesting comments on a conference last week on the new Weighted Student Funding proposal, which sounds like an excellent idea to me:
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At a conference on Friday morning at the Center for American Progress in Washington, panelists hashed out the details of a manifesto put out recently by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (that has received a long list of bipartisan backers) that urges school funding policies where the cash theoretically and equitably follows each child from school to school, like it has been stuffed in a backpack.
The idea, designed to achieve more equitable funding within school districts, was supported on the panel by liberal panelists like former Clinton aide John Podesta and former San Francisco Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and conservatives like former U.S. Ed Secretary Rod Paige.
Campaign for Fiscal Equity guru Mike Rebell was the spoiler.
The idea, designed to achieve more equitable funding within school districts, was supported on the panel by liberal panelists like former Clinton aide John Podesta and former San Francisco Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and conservatives like former U.S. Ed Secretary Rod Paige.
Campaign for Fiscal Equity guru Mike Rebell was the spoiler.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 5:01 PM
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