Re: “Faculties throughout WA are struggling to stability their budgets” [May 27, Education Lab]:
The article missed mentioning that districts with excessive poverty charges are struggling extra, as a result of Washington has one of the crucial regressive training funding methods within the nation. General, it funds districts with low poverty charges at a better per pupil charge than districts with excessive poverty charges. This has helped perpetuate the persistent and widening earnings and racial achievement and alternative gaps within the state.
The damaging impacts of COVID-19 fell extra closely on college students from low-income households who have been already struggling earlier than COVID as a result of state’s regressive funding system. The Legislature must put much more cash into the Studying Help Program to assist our most susceptible college students and make the funding system equitable. LAP is the one a part of the funding system that allocates cash based mostly upon poverty charges.
Within the 2024 legislative session, Senate Invoice 6253 from Sen. T’wina Nobles would have been a begin on this route, nevertheless it died as a result of it was not given a listening to within the Senate Early Studying & Okay-12 Schooling Committee.
Dave Larson, Tukwila (Tukwila College Board director)
