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This 4-page paper focuses on the disparities between urban and suburban school districts. The focus of the discussion is on unequal funding, as well as a gap in resources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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minority poor and failing one, and a suburban, affluent and successful one (Barbanel, 1993). This was not exactly news - since the "white flight" that characterized white families leaving urban
areas to the suburbs, theres been huge disparities between almost everything urban and suburban (Fuhrman B1). This includes education. Though it
might be tempting to paint race as the issue here, class is actually one main reason behind the disparity. Basically, because the public education system is run by an areas
taxes, the area that pays more taxes (at least in theory) is the area that has the better educational prospects (Ascher). The reason why race comes into play is because
the main bulk of the population in the poorer urban areas happens to be people of color. Getting back to the economic
issues of urban/suburban disparity, one study comparing funding of schools in urban districts and suburban districts provided what was termed "dramatic difference of inequities." But its not only property taxes
that are the problem. In most states, state aid to school districts tends to be calculated by what is called the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) data (Ascher). The higher
the ADA, the more likely that district will receive the most funding. The problem with this is that urban school districts tend to have a higher absentee rate than their
suburban counterparts (Ascher). In 1989, the New York City Board of Education calculated that the ADA formula had ended up leaving out about 15 percent of its students from state
aid (Ascher). Furthermore, except in a few states (such as Texas, which is trying to balance funding through its controversial "Robin Hood"
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