Re:America's Growing Gap in Digital Job Skills
by eli_gottlieb on Monday November 20, 2017 @08:38AM
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>The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world.
There's another way to put that: America's well-off suburbs have very good schools, but most of America does not. We need some numbers on the concentration of school-age children into good suburban districts versus "bad" inner-city and rural districts.
Re:America's Growing Gap in Digital Job Skills
by baldfat on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:30AM
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THis is as good as I can find:
http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-s...
The issue is defining suburbs. Usually it is Rural vs City (Which includes suburbs)
The big issue is how we fund schools. It is based on the value of your home divided by the number of children that lives in said homes. Since the richer you are the less children you have they get more money. http://www.economist.com/node/21561112
Until we take the funding of school's to the state level we can talk till we are blue in the face and we will continue to have a "Divide." I don't understand why the AARP and other groups don't jump on the bandwagon and remove the burden of school tax off the backs of fixed income home owners. Fair funding is the foundation that will happen only if the US Court System steps in, because I can't see this happening any other way.
For Pennsylvania they have the biggest gap in the nation with the poorest Charter School Law in America. http://fairfundingpa.org/resources/infographics/