Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps

This study from The Century Foundation examining the “funding gap” (the difference between the amount of funding school districts have and how much they need to bring students up to the current national average outcomes on reading and math assessments), which shows that school districts where a majority of the students are Black and Latinx students are nearly twice as likely to have a funding gap than districts where students of color represent less than half the enrollment. Southern states have some of the largest aggregate funding gaps; of the ten districts with the largest funding gaps, five are in the South. Among southern states, Florida has the largest aggregate funding gap ($10.9 billion over one year) and Delaware has the smallest ($26.7 million).