Since every Prime Minister has claimed to be putting more money into schools than ever before. But the hard truth is that nearly all schools in England are worse off now than 5 years ago.
Headteachers, governors, parents and school staff are speaking out because these cuts are having a devastating impact on the students of the future. Watch these videos and hear directly about how the cuts are damaging our education system. Andy Ramanandi, headteacher at St Joseph's Primary School in Gateshead, knows that cuts to school funding are having a negative impact on his pupils.
Parents and teachers are speaking out against these cuts. Join them today. Posted by School Cuts on Wednesday, April 17, To keep with developing public safety standards, more maintenance staff and materials will be needed to clean and sanitize schools , courtrooms, auditoriums, correctional facilities , metro stations, buses and other public spaces.
Strained budgets and employees will make it harder to complete these new essential tasks throughout the day. To avoid deeper cuts, state and local government officials are trying a host of strategies including borrowing money, using rainy day funds, increasing revenue by raising tax rates or creating new taxes or fees, ending tax exemptions and using federal aid as legally allowed.
Delaware managed to maintain its budget and avoided layoffs largely through using money set aside in a reserve account. In the worst-case scenario, budget officials are prepared to make steeper cuts in the coming months if more assistance does not come from the federal government or the economy does not recover quickly enough to restore the flow of money that governments need to operate.
Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Carla Flink , American University. We focused on how funding flows to low-income students relative to others, but you can see similar analyses looking at students of color and students living in rural versus urban areas in the appendix.
In the —17 school year—the most recent year for which data are available—33 out of 49 states sent more state and local money to poor students than to nonpoor students. Many state funding formulas are designed to send more money to districts with low-income students to counteract often regressive local funding across the state. To understand how progressivity for poor students may change with state funding cuts, we model three different types of state cuts:.
We compare the ratio of funding per student in poverty to the ratio of funding dollars per nonpoverty student before and after the funding cut a value greater than 1 means students in poverty get more funding, on average, than their nonpoverty peers. In our graphs, the diagonal line is where states would fall if the cut had no effect on progressivity.
States that would see a regressive effect fall below this line, and states that would see a progressive change are above the line. We only model the first-order effects of these cuts on state and local funding; we do not model how local funding, or other aspects of state funding formulas, may change in response to these cuts or the effects of federal funds on progressivity.
We find percentage cuts have regressive effects on total state and local funding in almost all states and even move several states from allocating more money to low-income students to becoming regressive.
But since education is decentralized among more than 12, school districts, some schools were hit with much larger per-pupil cuts than others. Students in Washington, Arkansas or Minnesota, for example, tended to see a larger drop in test scores than students in, say, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Wealthy communities were more able to offset the state funding cuts by digging into reserves, raising taxes or charging fees.
State budget cuts had the effect of increasing achievement gaps for both low-income students and students of color. In the July briefing to education journalists, school finance experts explained why low-income children were harmed more by the school funding cuts. Teachers union contracts often specify that layoffs must start with the most recently hired teachers, protecting veteran teachers with more seniority.
Poor schools, where the conditions are more challenging, tend to have more junior teachers and fewer veterans so low-income communities bore the brunt of the teacher layoffs. Layoffs, of course, are a last resort for school leaders. First they cut extra programs such as summer school, after school and supplemental reading. In other words, programs that help low-income kids got cancelled, Griffith said.
Transportation was another area targeted for cuts. Scholars have been debating the importance of money in education for decades. Of course, money could be spent more efficiently.
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