Why White School Districts Have So Much More Money
According to a new report, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more than districts that serve mostly students of color in the U.S.
by Clare Lombardo
Feb 26, 2019
3 minutes
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools are unconstitutional.
In 2018, on the 64th anniversary of that ruling, a lawsuit filed in New Jersey claimed that state's schools are some of the most segregated in the nation. That's because, the lawsuit alleges, New Jersey school district borders are drawn along municipality lines that reflect years of residential segregation.
The idea that school, which studies the ways schools are funded in the U.S.
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