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Equal opportunity for all is a quote legislator and politicians often take for granted. Too often urban schools have been left behind even though there is funding available that could improve the quality of education for poor minority students. Every year during budget sessions, Politicians and lawmakers has used this platform for their political agenda. Yet, they continue to cut education funding, which affects inner city schools. This literature review will examine strategies that parents, teachers, administrator, school board members, civil servants and political leaders can implement to improve equitable funding in urban schools. Resolving this crisis is challenging, but with bipartisan support from legislation and concerned citizens, …show more content…

His views are to restructure the system from the inside out. The first approach should be extensive teacher training, over sees contracts and mandated bureaucracies. Profile of all public schools should be on the internet so that parents can be informed. With access to this information, concern citizens will be able to challenge the system spending and programs. Transparency is the main objective the Secretary of education is implying. And the focus is to encourage parents and students to be active participant in the state funding distributions in their schools. These strategies can give them a voices and demand funding equality and educational programs that meet the needs of their …show more content…

First the dissected the word to their own advantages. According to the article, Search of Equality in School Finance Reform (2011), economist realizes that improving the education barriers of the low income school, could adversely affect the wealthy educational advantages. Therefore, the meaning of the word equality took on a different definition such as, “equity”, “fairness” and “adequacy “which sounds like the equivalent, but had detrimental undertone (Walters, 2011, p.29). For example the author stated, these words were used as synonyms to depreciate their opponent’s oppositions. The end result was opponents who had a lot to lose with education reform, align themselves, with state and local government to detach them from equalizing reforms for urban

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