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The fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer has been blamed on Wall Street bankers, lobbyists and others. Today there is evidence that another group is to blame: School district superintendents. And it’s being done at taxpayer expense.
The Department of Education and Arne Duncan are to be commended on commissioning a study, released yesterday. It looked at more than 13,000 school districts across the country; this covers most of the districts. It found that: “More than one-third of higher-poverty schools (above their district’s poverty average) had lower per-pupil personnel expenditures than lower-poverty schools in their districts at the same school grade level.” In other words, the more poor students get treated worse than their wealthier peers.
Lower personnel expenditures generally equates to less experienced teachers. Educators aware of social justice have complained for many years that it looks like rookie teachers are assigned to the poor urban schools disproportionately. This study supports that claim.
Math is a particular concern. Rookie teachers are significantly less effective. The students pay the price for the teacher’s inexperience. (After about ten years, research has shown that there is no statistical improvement in student achievement; a teacher with 25 years of experience is as effective as she was after ten years in general.)
How is it that 5000 school superintendents supported this inequity? Many of these superintendents have attended conferences on social justice and closing the achievement gap, sometimes in places like Orlando. These 5000 school superintendents are now identified.