Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?

Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by sokoloff on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:46PM (#27608411)

For a student who was educated for 10 years under funding level A and where funding level B was available for 1 full school year (2018-2019), resulting in some changes in the classrooms in the districts only after some time delay after funding was approved, I'd expect to see almost no change in the spring 2019 testing. Spring 2020 testing was impacted by COVID. It's fine that we have different expectations, though.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by WalterBright on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#27608577)

The thing is, the "fully-funding" issue has completely vanished from the agenda. It is never discussed anymore. It's back to the same old "we need more funding to make a difference" rhetoric.

In fact, I recall the very day the legislation passed, the same advocates were demanding even more money.

I've lived in Seattle for over 40 years now. Long enough to see innumerable funding increases based on demands that "this time it'll fix the schools". Nothing has moved the needle.

One of these is wrong:

1. the way the school system is set up and run

2. our expectations of what the schools can accomplish

Money is just not the problem.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by mcguire on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:00PM (#27609371)

"The thing is, the "fully-funding" issue has completely vanished from the agenda. It is never discussed anymore."

The state was failing to provide funding to all of the school systems in the state. The legislature came up with a plan to fix that and the state Supreme Court agreed with it. There isn't much else to say there.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by WalterBright on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:22PM (#27609758)

What is the plan on how to spend the money to improve results?

There is none.

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