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Poverty Law Conference & Symposium
Poverty law; school district funding; Local Control Funding Formula; Local Control Accountability Plan; LCFF; LCAP;
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Local Control Funding Formula: A Continuum Of Discrimination Against Minority Youth In Education, Alafia Delahaye
Local Control Funding Formula: A Continuum Of Discrimination Against Minority Youth In Education, Alafia Delahaye
Poverty Law Conference & Symposium
The issue of public school education funding is at the core of the inequalities between schools located in wealthy school districts and those in low-income school districts. Every state struggles to remedy inequitable funding, partly due to long histories of segregation and racism. Nevertheless, many states continue to believe that allowing localities to manage school funding will remedy the problems, but many localities fail to effectively and fairly manage funds.
Part I discusses the background and legal history of public school education funding in California. Part II describes the recent law passed in California, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) …