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358— Educational Inequality: Contrasting Local And Federal Funding, Robbie Economou Apr 2021

358— Educational Inequality: Contrasting Local And Federal Funding, Robbie Economou

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For this project, I wanted to observe how the massive reliance on local funding through property taxes for public education in the U.S. exacerbates already existing class inequalities, which are therefore correlated with inequalities by race. A transition towards alternative forms of funding, such as increased federal funding, would help to amend these inequalities.