Increased mental health treatment financing, community-based organization's treatment programs, and Latino-White children's financing disparities.
Such a plan would end years of disputes over state financing disparities between suburban, rural and city schools, but would have to comply with a State Supreme Court ruling that has demanded equality between poor and wealthy schools.
The study showed that while the financing disparities grew in nine states, the gap between high- and low-poverty schools nationally shrank to $966 per student, from $1,139 per student in 1997, or 15percentt.
The Governor said that the court said districts other than the 28 mentioned in the suit may have unconstitutional financing disparities and that he looked to this as a "signpost" that his bill was on the mark.
As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, he'd studied the history of school-financing disparities with a focus on the 1973 Supreme Court case San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez.
"Nationwide, school finance disparities continue to seriously undermine the mission of this country's public schools," the report reads.
But because equalizing current financing cannot address disparities built up between rich and poor districts over time, and because discrimination suits have faded with the end of legally sanctioned segregation, the latest wave of cases has begun focusing on conditions and programs, not money.
When comparing the remuneration for finance vs. non-finance technology jobs, the disparity is significant for jobs with similar levels of responsibility and required ability (in my experience around 2x).
To some degree, the disparity in financing reflects a historical reluctance by Congress to expand the judiciary, said Eric E. Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a Washington group that studies issues like drug policy.
