Slick Vik Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Wow this is an incredible book. The author breaks down taxation and how much is spent on each student and basically states racial segragation is still around, but via distribution (or lack thereof) of funds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Wow this is an incredible book. The author breaks down taxation and how much is spent on each student and basically states racial segragation is still around, but via distribution (or lack thereof) of funds. The problem, though, is that they've known about this problem for years and nothing has fully worked. Home lives are a huge largely uncorrectable issue, great teachers and pristine schools are ineffective if a child can't work and eat at home properly. Bussing kids across town was largely a failure, sending excess tax money to needier schools ends up being wasted (Texas tried that in the early 2000s/late 1990s), and "school choice" opportunities like in Houston end up overcrowding "better" schools while the local school ends up being closed due to lack of attendance, which ends up killing land values and thus, tax dollars. Does your book actually have a real, innovative solution or does it just bring up an old problem with the failed ideas that have tried to deal with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerlooper Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 This is Kozol's book from 1991 and a lot has changed in school spending, though segregation has not. Irontiger is on the mark. An interesting spending example from DC.... http://edexcellence.net/publications/metro-dc-school-spending-explorer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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