Achieving Resource Equity Within a Single School District
Erasing the Opportunity Gap By Examining School Board Decisions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9729006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edwin C Darden (Appleseed, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author), Elizabeth Cavendish (Appleseed, Washington, DC, USA) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-82 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124510380912 |
| OpenAlex | W1971408780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
This article examines the failure of school districts to distribute nonmoney resources—controlled primarily by the board of education—equally among students in affluent neighborhoods versus low-income areas. It is largely an urban phenomenon, although some county-wide and large suburban school systems display similar patterns. Such practices represent a failure to achieve the vision of equity championed in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The main aspects of the opportunity gap addressed in this article are teacher assignment, staff-based budgeting, formal equality over equity, general education funds, parental involvement, curriculum, and building maintenance costs. These elements are widely accepted as important to learning outcomes. Inadvertent disparities in resource allocation, therefore, can foster a growing opportunity gap between well-off and impoverished students. The findings of Necochea and Cline highlight the negative effects on students of unequal resource allocation. Potential legal pathways in the form of Federal and State laws are suggested to combat the intradistrict educational inequity. The article concludes with policy solutions that school districts across the country have implemented to mitigate the harmful effects of unequal resource allocation and their straightforward attempts to erase the opportunity gap among students from different neighborhoods
Business · Curriculum · Economic growth · Economics · Educational Equity · Equal opportunity · Equity (law · Labour economics · Pedagogy · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Resource allocation · School district · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · School Choice and Performance
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |