$600 Billion Lost: State Disinvestment in Education Following the Great Recession

Autor/inn/en	Farrie, Danielle; Sciarra, David G.
Institution	Education Law Center
Titel	$600 Billion Lost: State Disinvestment in Education Following the Great Recession
Quelle	(2020), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Finance; Retrenchment; State Aid; Economic Climate; Public Schools; School Support; Elementary Secondary Education; Economic Factors; COVID-19; Pandemics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Wirtschaftslage; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulförderverein; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	In the decade following the Great Recession, students across the U.S. lost nearly $600 billion from the states' disinvestment in their public schools. Data from 2008-2018 show that, if states had simply maintained their fiscal effort in PK-12 education at pre-Recession levels, public schools would have had over half a trillion dollars more in state and local revenue to provide teachers, support staff and other resources essential for student achievement. Further, that lost revenue could have significantly improved opportunity and outcomes for students, especially in the nation's poorest districts. States dramatically reduced their investment in public education in response to the 2007 Great Recession. Yet as economies rebounded, states failed to restore those investments. As the analysis shows, while states' economic activity--measured as Gross Domestic Product (GDP)--recovered, state and local revenues for public schools lagged far behind in many states. This report builds on the "Making the Grade" analysis of the condition of public school funding in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Instead of a one-year snapshot, this report provides a longitudinal analysis of the effort made by states from 2008 to 2018 to fund their public education systems. To measure that effort, researchers used an index that calculates elementary and secondary education revenue as a percentage of each state's economic activity or GDP. A key goal of this report is to give advocates data and information to use in their efforts to press governors and state legislatures not to make another round of devastating "pandemic cuts" to already underfunded public schools. [For "Making the Grade 2020: How Fair Is School Funding in Your State?" see ED612473.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01