In my role I spend time driving across the Bay Area to visit and support our school partnerships in San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland. On a recent drive, while listening to NPR, I heard an interesting story on public school funding. I later found this resource online, an exploration and analysis called “School Money”, a nationwide collaboration between NPR’s Ed Team and twenty member station reporters examining how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students. This links to a story, Part 1 of 3, entitled “Why America’s Schools Have a Money Problem”. The website has some very interesting charts and interactive maps (see example below) that shed light on complexity and disparities the exist across the country. If you are interested in learning more about this important factor of creating high quality public education systems, check out this series of stories.
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Lilly Green, Director of School Partnerships
Lilly Green, Director of School Partnerships
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