What does a sound basic education cost? It’s time to find out
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
By Dr. Stephen Jackson
The state has undertaken a number of initiatives in recent years to address the educational achievement gap, including lowering class sizes in early grades, increasingavailability of high-quality preschool programs, and targeting a small amount of additional resources to schools in low-wealth counties and to those with higher concentrations of disadvantaged students. One important step that the state has not taken, however, is to review how resources are distributed to schools to determine if adequate resources arereaching the students most in need. This is a step that 39 states have used as a means of informing and guiding their education reform efforts.
The NC Budget & Tax Center released a new report WHAT DOES A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION COST? It's time to find out calling for a study that defines what is necessary to provide all children in NC with a sound, basic education and the cost of the programs and total cost to satisfy that constitutionally proscribed responsibility.
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