A total of about 20 states still don't fund general education at levels higher than they did before the 2008 Great Recession.
Teachers in Oakland, Calif., went on strike in February, joining a growing roster of educators nationally protesting low pay and reduced classroom spending. By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 6 at 6:00 AM Teacher protests in 2018 helped lead to a big boost in education funding in four states, but a new report says it wasn’t enough to make up for earlier cuts.
“These trends are very concerning for the country’s future prospects,” said Michael Leachman, senior director of state fiscal research at the center and co-author of the report with senior policy analyst Eric Figueroa. States distribute most of their education funding through a formula that allocates money to school districts to support general educational activities, including teacher salaries, supplies and textbooks . Each state has its own formula. Most target some extra money to poorer districts, which disproportionately educate children of color. But those districts can’t raise as much in local money as wealthier ones.
After a statewide teachers strike in Oklahoma, the legislature boosted general education funding by 19 percent after adjusting for inflation. Arizona, North Carolina and West Virginia increased funding between 3 and 9 percent, while Kentucky remained flat . Arizona used one-time funding shifts and “rosy” funding assessments to pay for its increases. North Carolina “increased funding for schools without raising new revenue to do so,” the report says. Oklahoma raised taxes on cigarettes and gas, but that revenue is likely to grow more slowly than school costs, he said.
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