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A 100% Solution to the REAL problems in school funding

Education funding today is a mess, and we need a solution that addresses its biggest problems: most disadvantaged students don't receive the funding they need; red tape and overhead waste time and money; and new types of education options, like charter schools, are starved for dollars. Unfortunately, until now, so-called solutions have consisted of nothing more than soothing slogans and gimmicks.

But a broad, bipartisan coalition now urges a new method of funding our public schools--one that finally ensures the students who need the most receive it, that empowers school leaders to make key decisions, and that opens the door to public school choice. It's a 100 percent solution to the most pressing problems in public school funding--and it's called Weighted Student Funding.

Click the links on the right to learn more. Click here to download the full proposal as a pdf.

Weighted Student Funding in the News

Gov. Jon S. Corzine will propose a new school financing formula as early as next week that would give at least $400 million in new state money to poor and disadvantaged children. more

New York's schools chancellor thinks so, but taxpayers may disagree.   more

Some urban districts are making progress closing the achievement gap with the help of a school financing mechanism known as "weighted student formula." more

Instead of funding individual schools, the district should fund individual students. more

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein released next years budgets for New York Citys more than 1,400 public schools yesterday, using a new financing system that will drive far more money to schools serving low-achieving students, children from low-income families and those who speak limited English. more

Thomas B. Fordham Institute