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>"In
1985 a federal district judge took partial control over the troubled
Kansas City, Missouri, School District (KCMSD) on the grounds that it
was an unconstitutionally segregated district with dilapidated
facilities and students who performed poorly. In an effort to bring the
district into compliance with his liberal interpretation of federal law,
the judge ordered the state and district to spend nearly $2 billion
over the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and
bring student test scores up to national norms.”
The judicial branch ordered the legislative branch to spend money, and told it exactly how to do it.
>"Kansas
City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil - more money per pupil, on a
cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest
districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15
new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with
an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics
lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with
simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and
Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any
major school district in the country."
How did that turn out?
>"The
results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did
not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration."
What does that tell you about funding not making a difference, or at least not as much as g? |