Report says poor students shortchanged

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Poor students are shortchanged by federal and state school aid policies, a report released Wednesday says.

At the federal level, the Education Department gives states nearly $13 billion a year to help students in low-income districts.

The complex formula used to determine each state's share guarantees a minimum amount for small states. That means Wyoming and Vermont, for example, can get more money per poor student than do more populous states.

Federal school dollars also are tied to the amount that each state spends on education. States that spend more get more from Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/education_spending

[last1standing]

1. Report says sky is blue.

Unless you live in the city with most of those poor students, then the sky is usually rather gray.

It's important to see these numbers and to have this info in the news, but, really, who didn't know that less money goes to poorer schools?

[Kerrytravelers]

2. Jonathon Kozol has written on this subject.

My pick is Savage inequalities as a great book to read to get amazing insight and true stories to show the realization of this fact.