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Author: Amber Churchwell
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke this past weekend at an education town hall about the specialized high schools in New York City. Instead of speaking to the proposal to get rid of admission exams for these elite schools, she questioned why all schools weren’t achieving similar reputations. What is the current discussion around the lack of diversity at specialized high schools?
In 2016, EdBuild, a non-partisan organization dedicated to education reform, found that predominantly non-white school districts received $23 billion less in funding than predominantly white school districts. Why do this inequalities persist? What solutions are being explored?
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Georgia has the nation’s third largest rural school population, but these rural schools are often underfunded, understaffed, and under-performing. Many rural schools are taking great strides to improve their outcomes, but are these improvements equal across disadvantaged groups?