This article’s trajectory shifts from the obvious but necessary (K12 teachers are catastrophically underpaid) to the hilarious (confronted with meaningful efforts to increase K12 teacher pay, right-wingers suddenly are sounding klaxons about teacher overwork, classroom conditions, and “spiraling demands”).
For those of you scrolling who don’t have 2 minutes to peer at tiny graphs on your phone, no worries, no shame, understood. Here’s the short version:
Minnesota chronically, systematically underfunds school districts with more Black and brown kids. White suburban districts use local property taxes to boost per-pupil funding, by a factor of more than 3x at the extremes. There’s your “allocation problem.”
I’m sure that’s what the AEI guy was talking about.
“We underfund the districts that tend to have diversity officers, therefore DEI causes achievement gap” is sure a eyebrow-raiser of an argument. (I’m putting words in their mouth a bit there, but it’s an ugly mouth, so I don’t feel bad about doing that.)
@inthehands On top of that my already well-funded district raises (presumably) a lot more money via PTA, booster clubs, and other side channels than underfunded districts.