Wednesday, June 03, 2009

"Low income schools face cuts."

reads the Journal's headline over Andrea Schoellkopf's story.
link

When all schools are treated equally, schools with greater need
suffer disproportionately.

Obviously, some schools have greater needs than others.
Larger schools have greater needs than smaller schools.
Superficially, it makes sense to consider only size in dividing
resources. The reality is different.

Every child in Albuquerque is entitled to a neighborhood
school where there is the same potential to succeed as there
is at every other school. This demands that resources be
allocated on need, not on numbers of students.

Again it seems that the poor will experience a disproportionate
amount of the suffering.

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