We offer five potential pathways to funding fairness: 1. Require some districts to consolidate or share services; 2. Expand interdistrict transfer and related choice policies… (5/6)

The average excess advantage district generated $7,197 per pupil above LCFF targets, with more than a dozen such districts benefitting from $20,000+ per pupil in excess revenue. (4/6)

These “excess advantage” districts continue to gain more inflation-adjusted per-pupil General Fund revenue, widening the gap and contradicting the state’s school funding principles. (3/6)

139 districts—serving just 5.5 percent of California’s TK–12 students—are benefitting from growing funding advantages. Just 50 of these districts generated $1.15 billion in excess revenue (87% of the statewide total) in 2023–24. (2/6)

I'm pleased to share a new report I coauthored with @bellwetherorg.bsky.social's Sophie Zamarripa and @edpolicyinca.org's @agallagheredpolicy.bsky.social, sharing findings from the first major study of basic aid districts since LCFF was enacted in California. edpolicyinca.org/publications... (1/6)

Inspired by today's conversation about an education civil rights agenda for California's next quarter century.

Was awesome to be in a room with so many researchers, advocates, and civil rights greats like Tom Saenz, Patricia Gandara, Mark Rosenblum, Maria Echaveste, and my old prof Gary Orfield.