Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born

Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by rayiner on Thursday February 06, 2020 @08:56PM (#22262513)

That’s not true. Localities provide 45% of school funding, while states provide another 45%, and the federal government provides about 10%: https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/fut...

Local funding is in fact uneven. But state and federal funding is primarily directed to eliminating those disparities: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/alfresco...

> The paper then examines changes in finances over time—both within and across states— and evaluates how spending levels have changed for school districts that serve students of different races. Spending differences have largely disappeared. Spending levels across districts have converged; most remaining differences in spending are between rather than within states.

Obviously Kansas still spends less than California, but everything is much cheaper in Kansas too.

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Re:Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobili... by dangerlibrary on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:50AM (#22266454)

The report you cite from the tax policy center indicates that 30% of variation in school funding is still within-state between districts, so I'm not sure why they feel comfortable asserting that "spending levels across districts have converged". The authors also point out that district-level funding analyses gloss over large spending disparities between schools within districts.

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