Funding Equity and Teacher Labor Market Challenges in Education Reform
Discover the progress on funding equity in the United States and the challenges posed by the teacher labor market in achieving comprehensive education reform. Explore insightful strategies to bridge the gap between left and right support through incentive programs and funding approaches, including examples like the Dallas ACE Program and addressing the charter funding gap.
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Michael J. Petrilli Thomas B. Fordham Institute @michaelpetrilli
Good news for a change: The United States has made huge progress on funding equity.
Source: School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement, Julien Lafortune, Jesse Rothstein, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, NBER Working Paper No. 22011, February 2016, Revised July 2016, JEL No. H73,H75,I22, https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22011/w22011.pdf
But equity is not enough And that s largely because of the teacher labor market.
How can the left attract support from the right? Tie more money to reform. Dallas or DC-style incentive pay programs Backpack funding, especially for charter school students
Dallass ACE Program Source: Andrew Morgan, Minh Nguyen, Eric Hanushek, Ben Ost, Steven Rivkin (2023). Attracting and Retaining Highly Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools. CALDER Working Paper No. 280-0323, https://caldercenter.org/publications/attracting-and-retaining-highly-effective-educators-hard-staff- schools
The substantial charter funding gap Source: Alison Heape Johnson et al., Charter School Funding: Little Progress Towards Equity in the City, School Choice Demonstration Project (2023), https://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=scdp
Michael J. Petrilli President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute @michaelpetrilli
