Education: school funding disparity
Years ago, United States (U.S.) Public School was one of the best places that gave opportunities to children from different background and race to come together and be educated. However, with the occurrence of income inequality among Americans, the education system has changed profoundly in the way that today there is a certain inequality in public school specifically in public school funding. Currently, the school funding structure in U.S. education system promotes the growth and intellectual development of students from rich families, but limits the educational prospects of students from poor families. The results of this disparity have placed students educated in poorer school districts, at an overwhelming disadvantage, while creating a competitive advantage for students educated in rich school districts. Also this issue has generated great debate and researchers have attempted to resolve it without success. Today the school funding inequality remains one of the important challenges that need to be addressed by …show more content…
According to Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner (2002), in “What research says about unequal funding for schools in America?” Declares that at the beginning, public schools were founded to serve local communities and not the state or the nation (p.12). This led to the property taxes structure for funding public schools as well as the unwillingness of the wealthy to pay additional taxes to finance well-funded schools for poor communities. Moreover, because local property tax increases should be approved by voter, it is often very difficult for extensive increase in education funding to be made, particularly from voters who live in rich school districts where high levels are already available. People do not want to overtax themselves to increase other people’s
Years ago, United States (U.S.) Public School was one of the best places that gave opportunities to children from different background and race to come together and be educated. However, with the occurrence of income inequality among Americans, the education system has changed profoundly in the way that today there is a certain inequality in public school specifically in public school funding. Currently, the school funding structure in U.S. education system promotes the growth and intellectual development of students from rich families, but limits the educational prospects of students from poor families. The results of this disparity have placed students educated in poorer school districts, at an overwhelming disadvantage, while creating a competitive advantage for students educated in rich school districts. Also this issue has generated great debate and researchers have attempted to resolve it without success. Today the school funding inequality remains one of the important challenges that need to be addressed by …show more content…
According to Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner (2002), in “What research says about unequal funding for schools in America?” Declares that at the beginning, public schools were founded to serve local communities and not the state or the nation (p.12). This led to the property taxes structure for funding public schools as well as the unwillingness of the wealthy to pay additional taxes to finance well-funded schools for poor communities. Moreover, because local property tax increases should be approved by voter, it is often very difficult for extensive increase in education funding to be made, particularly from voters who live in rich school districts where high levels are already available. People do not want to overtax themselves to increase other people’s