NYU Metro Center on LinkedIn: As the NYS budget is finalized and next year's education allocation… (2025)

As the NYS budget is finalized and next year's education allocation becomes clearer, NYU Metro Center asks a question. What would truly equitable funding of public schools look like? This latest VUE article examines the initial Fair School Funding (FSF) formula,and outlines still necessary changes to best serve vulnerable communities, inclusive of low-income and ELL students. This issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE), titled Chasing Equity: Fighting for Justice in New York City Schools, highlights a selection of the late education advocate Norm Fruchter’s writings. Norm has written extensively about a host of pertinent education topics, including access to higher education, non-traditional schooling, connecting to legacies of racial justice movements, community involvement in schools, school segregation, and school funding.Read this article, Revisiting the DOE’s Fair Student Funding Formula, and more in NYU Metro Center’s Voices In Urban Education (VUE), here: bit.ly/3w9dx1e#NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #VUE #VoicesInUrbanEducation #NormFruchter #ChasingEquity #Equity #FairSchoolFunding #FSF #FundingFormula #DOE #NewYorkCity #PublicSchools #NYCPS #SocialJustice #RacialJustice #Budget #SchoolFunding #Students #Youth #Families #Communities #Teachers #Administration #Priorities #LowIncomeStudents #ELLStudents #ELL #Budget #Budget2024

#ICYMI: 30 years of Milwaukee reforms yielded abundant school choice--- but scarce school quality, according to the new Wisconsin Policy Forum report on quality academic outcomes remaining elusive https://lnkd.in/gx5Bqb_G #EducationReform #SchoolChoice #AcademicOutcomes #WisconsinPolicy #SchoolReforms

As politicians work to finalize the NY State budget, and speculation continues about the severity of cuts to education, author Norm Fruchter asks us to envision what constitutes a Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula. What equitable opportunities for children could result from the implementation of a FSF formula? Smaller class size? Expanded Pre-k & 3-k? Universal free childcare? NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (or VUE) is an open-access journal published twice annually and endeavors to serve as a “roundtable-in-print” by bringing together diverse education stakeholders with a wide range of viewpoints, including leading education writers and thinkers, as well as essential but frequently underrepresented voices in educational scholarship, such as students, parents, teachers, activists, and community members.Our latest edition of VUE, Chasing Equity: Fighting for Justice in NYC Schools, is a powerful tribute to the life and work of education advocate, the late Norm Fruchter. Among numerous career achievements, Norm was pivotal in organizing in support of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, championing parents in their lawsuit against New York State to ensure a quality education for their children.Read Funding Problems for City Schools, and other articles in this special edition Voices In Urban Education (VUE), here: bit.ly/444etka#NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #VoicesinUrbanEducation #VUE #NormFruchter #Funding #FundingProblems #Schools #NYC #NewYorkState #Budget2024 #Budget #Justice #FairSchoolFunding #FSF #formula #parents #students #children #lawsuit #quality #education #SchoolTransformation #SchoolChange #Scholarship #parents #activists #communitymembers #researchers #writers #classsize #Pre-k #3k #childcare #journal #openaccess #opportunities #decisions #community #voices

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As politicians work to finalize the NY State budget, and speculation continues about the severity of cuts to education, author Norm Fruchter asks us to envision what constitutes a Fair Student Funding (FSF) formula. What equitable opportunities for children could result from the implementation of a FSF formula? Smaller class size? Expanded Pre-k & 3-k? Universal free childcare? NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (or VUE) is an open-access journal published twice annually and endeavors to serve as a “roundtable-in-print” by bringing together diverse education stakeholders with a wide range of viewpoints, including leading education writers and thinkers, as well as essential but frequently underrepresented voices in educational scholarship, such as students, parents, teachers, activists, and community members.Our latest edition of VUE, Chasing Equity: Fighting for Justice in NYC Schools, is a powerful tribute to the life and work of education advocate, the late Norm Fruchter. Among numerous career achievements, Norm was pivotal in organizing in support of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, championing parents in their lawsuit against New York State to ensure a quality education for their children.Read Funding Problems for City Schools, and other articles in this special edition Voices In Urban Education (VUE), here: bit.ly/444etka#NYUMetroCenter #NYUSteinhardt #VoicesinUrbanEducation #VUE #NormFruchter #Funding #FundingProblems #Schools #NYC #NewYorkState #Budget2024 #Budget #Justice #FairSchoolFunding #FSF #formula #parents #students #children #lawsuit #quality #education #SchoolTransformation #SchoolChange #Scholarship #parents #activists #communitymembers #researchers #writers #classsize #Pre-k #3k #childcare #journal #openaccess #opportunities #decisions #community #voices

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SEGREGATED CHOICES: MAGNET AND CHARTER SCHOOLS - PDF: https://lnkd.in/e-QuckZaThis analysis describes levels of diversity in a comparable subset of schools to enable policy-relevant comparisons between charter and magnet schools. We examine schools in districts that had at least five charter schools and five magnet schools in any year since 2000. This selection includes most of the 100 largest school districts since both types of schools developed mostly in large urban districts. This sample is especially relevant to choice policies because it allows comparisons in the same districts where both types of school choice have been tried at a significant level. This study describes the level of segregation in recent decades in large districts which had a significant presence of schools of both types.The new data on school segregation produced for this report supports the following major findings:Charter schools grew rapidly in the last 20 years with enrollment eventually surpassing magnets schools by more than 1 million students in recent years. Charter school enrollment grew especially fast: up approximately 900% since 2001.In 2021, magnet schools were less segregated than comparable charter schools along multiple measures. The average Black student in a magnet school was in a school that was 15% white compared to charter schools where the average black student was in a school that was only 8% white. Over the last 20 years, Latino to white exposure increased in magnets and decreased in charter schools.The charter sector had a higher proportion of intensely segregated schools than the magnet sector, and the gap between the two sectors increased over time. The proportion of intensely segregated charter schools, with less than 10% white students, increased from 45% to 59% from 2000 to 2021. A different trend was observed for magnets. The share of magnets that were intensely segregated was nearly the same in 2000 and 2021: 34% and 36%.#residentialsegregtion #charterschools #segregation #magnetschools #schools #taxation #schoolboundaries #schoolchoice #schoolvouchers

What? You can leave a group that doesn't align with your values and fails to consider or represent your beliefs? Really? Seems like something Joseph Turner should try. I expect more rural Virginia school boards will choose to move toward the new entity, highlighting a pretty clear urban-rural divide with more social issues defining the break than policy issues. The math, though, continues to be in favor of the larger municipalities and urban counties in the I-95/I-64 crescent, and will be until we can find more common-ground education issues. I expect the short-term implications to be bad for policies rural localities want.https://lnkd.in/ewfN3QHX

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The Public Interest Law Center is compiling excellent updates on this landmark decision at https://lnkd.in/eeaEm3NT.

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Today's report from Wisconsin Policy Forum is an important - and sobering - reality check on where things stand for Milwaukee's students and schools. Across the board, far too many of our city's more than 110,000 publicly funded students are not receiving the educational opportunity they deserve.I often reference James Baldwin's quote that nothing can be changed, until it is faced. We City Forward Collective are committed to facing these realities head-on, and continuing to advance the conditions necessary to ensure that every Milwaukee child has access to high-quality schools of their choice, and is prepared to thrive. We'll continue to fight for fair funding -- for all students, schools, and sectors, including special education and early learners -- for meaningful accountability for student outcomes, and for a common-sense, citywide, collaborative approach to addressing critical challenges like chronic absenteeism and student mental health.As Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Jill Underly, Ph.D. said in response to today's report: kids in Milwaukee, across all sectors and schools, have real needs that aren't being met -- and we cannot accept the status quo because they each deserve the best from all of us.

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Whatever complaints we may have about our local schools or college costs, most of us have no doubt that our children need a good education. Education is the most reliable path to a good life, and the popularity of education offers a giant opportunity to politicians and policymakers alike! Conversations or policies on universal preschool, which would address both inequality and child-care needs, and universal tuition-free community college, are crucial steps in this regard. Community colleges are part of the answer and are also a common pathway to four-year degrees. There are some important conversations and work being conducted here in Chicago by Jeffery Beckham Jr, Miguel Angel Saucedo, PhD and others throughout the state on a larger and even smaller scale every day. Education is the single best vehicle to tearing down barriers and creating a more empathetic and empowered society. If you have not read this book by David Leonhardt, do yourself a favor and give it a read or at least a listen on whatever social modem you prefer. Education is the tool that can transform today's divide, and we must work together to ensure it is accessible to all. #EducationForAll #CommunityColleges #TransformingDivides

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Funding is always a hot topic when it comes to public schools in America. This article does a great job at explaining how special education funding works, specifically from the federal government. I appreciate that the article considers the initial intentions of the funding formula and how it continues to fall short based on the demand in districts throughout the country.Did you know that “educating the average student with disabilities costs $27,000—nearly triple the cost of educating an average student without disabilities in the state, and double the current national average per-pupil expenditure, according to 2022 Census data.” That means that despite schools spending A LOT of money, on the ground, it still isn’t enough. Special education departments are still understaffed and underdeveloped … so, what happens to our students? How can we make something out of nothing, hire qualified staff, provide quality development, and give students what they need to be academically and socially-emotionally successful?What are your thoughts? Comment below.Article Link: https://lnkd.in/eudmzVZHTo learn continuous tips and strategies related to special education and building inclusive schools, click here: https://bit.ly/spedemails

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