Thanks on your editorial on the poor job Washington is doing in offering satisfactory faculty funding for kids of poorer households [“State has wealth, but not the will, to fund schools equitably,” Nov. 10, Opinion]. Related research reported by The New York Instances additionally present that household wealth is a powerful predictor of pupil educational success as measured by SAT scores [“New SAT data highlights the inequality at the heart of American education,” Oct. 29, Nation & World].
These research make it clear that wealth inequality isn’t just a matter of ethical remorse. In Washington’s faculty funding system, it leads to systematically harming some youngsters. A sure inequality of wealth is endemic to a capitalist system. However these numbers cry out for more practical motion to reduce the typically irreversible and at all times life-limiting burdens we place on completely harmless youngsters.
It helps to have your editorial voice on this dialogue. Now we have to hear from our presumably knowledgeable govt and legislative leaders.
William Andersen, Seattle