Equity and Adequacy in Educational Financing

As you prepare for the next staff meeting, you decide to research how your own state financing formulae are designed to address differences in educational needs among the districts in your state.

Discuss what you find out about equity/adequacy financing in your state.

The equity principle demands that every school district should access the same resources to deliver to their students as every other district in Texas. These cases are normally founded on the equal protection policy in state laws, though some court decisions have deduced an equity concept from the state education clauses. Issues of equity may concentrate on the student level or school district level. The former asks whether learners in every district have access to comparable level of financing, irrespective of effort by local taxpayers while the latter asks whether districts have the same resources at any particular level of effort by locals. The…