Checkerboard Schooling: How State Aid Affects High Minority School Districts in New York State.

Autor/in	Scheuer, Joan
Institution	Educational Priorities Panel, New York, NY.
Titel	Checkerboard Schooling: How State Aid Affects High Minority School Districts in New York State.
Quelle	(1999), (84 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Minority Groups; Public Schools; Resource Allocation; School Districts; State Aid; Urban Schools; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnische Minderheit; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Ressourcenallokation; School district; Schulbezirk; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	In 1996-97, forty percent of all students in New York state public schools attend schools in one of the nine high minority districts in which minority students constituted eighty percent or more of total enrollment. This report uses the downstate metropolitan region to analyze the effect of state aid policies on high minority school districts and to identify factors that reduce their aid entitlements. The report also compares high and low minority districts in three downstate counties and the state's five largest cities to other districts in the same region. An overall purpose is to see if the state provides adequate resources to meet the extra needs of high minority school districts. Data are from multiple sources. The analysis shows that state funds do not provide enough support for children in high minority school districts in the downstate suburbs and in the state's largest cities. State aid falls far short of filling the gap in educational offerings. Instead, it reflects regional political pressures. Although state aid programs are frequently targeted to support specific student groups, state aid does not relate directly to special projects in the schools. State school aid sometimes has counterproductive consequences, as the results of an analysis of the state's Transition Adjustment shows. By including Tax Effort and Equalization aids in the Transition adjustment, the high minority school districts in the downstate area were caught in the safety net that was designed to save harmless guarantees in affluent school districts. (Contains 6 figures and 11 tables.) (SLD)
Anmerkungen	Educational Priorities Panel, 225 Broadway, Suite 225, New York, NY 10007 ($25; $15 for four copies or more).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC