Achieving Resource Equity within a Single School District: Erasing the Opportunity Gap by Examining School Board Decisions

Autor/inn/en	Darden, Edwin C.; Cavendish, Elizabeth
Titel	Achieving Resource Equity within a Single School District: Erasing the Opportunity Gap by Examining School Board Decisions
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 44 (2012) 1, S.61-82 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124510380912
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Suburban Schools; Parent Participation; Academic Achievement; School Districts; Parent School Relationship; Boards of Education; Equal Education; Resource Allocation; Educational Policy; School Law; Low Income; Educational Equity (Finance); Educational Finance; School District Spending; Teacher Distribution; Budgeting; Constitutional Law; Civil Rights Legislation; Court Litigation; Federal Legislation; State Legislation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; School; Schools; Vorort; Vorstadt; Schule; Elternmitwirkung; Schulleistung; School district; Schulbezirk; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Ausschuss; Ressourcenallokation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Niedriglohn; Bildungsfonds; Staatsrecht; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Rechtsstreit; Bundesrecht; Landesrecht
Abstract	This article examines the failure of school districts to distribute nonmoney resources--controlled primarily by the board of education--equally among students in affluent neighborhoods versus low-income areas. It is largely an urban phenomenon, although some county-wide and large suburban school systems display similar patterns. Such practices represent a failure to achieve the vision of equity championed in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka". The main aspects of the opportunity gap addressed in this article are teacher assignment, staff-based budgeting, formal equality over equity, general education funds, parental involvement, curriculum, and building maintenance costs. These elements are widely accepted as important to learning outcomes. Inadvertent disparities in resource allocation, therefore, can foster a growing opportunity gap between well-off and impoverished students. The findings of Necochea and Cline highlight the negative effects on students of unequal resource allocation. Potential legal pathways in the form of Federal and State laws are suggested to combat the intradistrict educational inequity. The article concludes with policy solutions that school districts across the country have implemented to mitigate the harmful effects of unequal resource allocation and their straightforward attempts to erase the opportunity gap among students from different neighborhoods. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10