Funding schools more equitably is one way to get more teachers from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds in public K-12 classrooms, writes Travis Bristol, an assistant professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Some states, like California, have a more progressive, equitable funding formula,” Bristol writes for The Conversation. “Other states, like New York, which are home to some of our country’s largest public school districts, have more regressive funding formulas. Since public schools are primarily funded by local property taxes, students who live in high-income communities across New York State, for example, attend more well-resourced schools than children living in low-income communities.”
Read his full article here.
