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>IMHO I do think this robin hood practice is fair as it gives all kids in all districts a more balanced education because the poor districts can now afford the technology and stocked libraries in their classrooms.<
The problem is they take it so far. In NJ my district gets like $9200 per student per year. Newark spends 22000+. The results are not even close. My district FAR outscores them and my district is the exact center band that NJ ranks school districts by wealth. We are not wealthy.
You would have to check the Constitution of each State. Maryland Public funding guide is here, enjoy. The suit is about the State not doing what it promised it would.
>IMHO I do think this robin hood practice is fair as it gives all kids in all districts a more balanced education because the poor districts can now afford the technology and stocked libraries in their classrooms.<
The problem is they take it so far. In NJ my district gets like $9200 per student per year. Newark spends 22000+. The results are not even close. My district FAR outscores them and my district is the exact center band that NJ ranks school districts by wealth. We are not wealthy.
But how much of that $9200 is fed money vs property tax money ?
Title 1 schools get extra Fed money over and above any other money.
Not sure how much is Fed vs local. Understand that NJ is more of a property tax state than an income tax state state. All those charts listing NJ as a high income tax state look at the top rate whish starts at 500K... a problem I would love to have. A 100K family of 4 will pay about 2.5% net state income tax BUT pay much more than average in property tax.
In NJ (Vs TX) the person in NJ earning the equivalent money will live in a MUCH smaller home. I have a friend (similar job title) that got transfered to Dallas. He BOUGHT 3600 SF 5BR + den 3 car garage... blah blah for $210K. The dump we rent is 3 BR 1.5 ba 1008 SF, has not been maintained in 10+ years and pays 6400 in property tax in a town with "relatively low" property taxes.
One of the items at issue in MD is the contention by the HBCs that the non-HBCs are enticing Black students away from them with duplicate programs.
The MD HBCs have some of the worst graduation rates in the US for any colleges, in the case of Morgan the rate is less than 20%.
With equal access to college many HBCs need to examine their roles, which historically was to provide a college education to minorities (primarily Blacks) who could not go to most colleges.
Another MD reality is that all levels of education spending is being held hostage by members of the MD Legislature (primarily Sen. Thomas V. "Mike" Miller D-Prince George's, President of the MD Senate) as a means to expand slot machine gambling across the state and introduce casino table gambling in various locations.
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