Despite significant changes in how the state allocates funding to schools beginning in 2013, the achievement gap has remained large. Could another $300M help or will something else close the gap?
Having been a teacher of elementary age children, it seems to me that the parents of the lowest performing children are suffering economically, which has many effects on the educational performance of the children. Number 1 solution is to raise the minimum wage to $20/hr and/or provide a universal guaranteed income for all. You can figure what that will achieve on many fronts.
Having been a teacher of elementary age children, it seems to me that the parents of the lowest performing children are suffering economically, which has many effects on the educational performance of the children. Number 1 solution is to raise the minimum wage to $20/hr and/or provide a universal guaranteed income for all. You can figure what that will achieve on many fronts.