From guest blogger Alyssa Morones
Five years ago, New York City implemented a weighted school funding program, hoping to make its budget distribution more equitable for students. Since then, researchers sought to find out: Is funding for schools in New York getting fairer? The answer, in short, is yes, but very slowly, writes my colleague Sarah D. Sparks over at the Inside School Research blog.
As schools across the nation became plagued with fiscal pressures, New York's Fair Student Funding initiative was just one of several district initiatives across the country that sought out a budget model that would better match the needs of students and improve fairness and transparency in district finances. The weighted student funding model, which came to the United States from the Edmonton public schools in the Canadian province of Alberta, funds schools based on the composition of each school's students.
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