Ruling for Poor School District Funding
An article by Shelly Sigo, “Ruling for Poor School District Funding Positive: Moody’s” in The Bond Buyer, begins to convey that in the state of South Carolina, provisions for funding to poor children had been minimal, violating the state’s constitution. On November 12 of just this year, the state’s court had resolved this 21 year old case, establishing that the formula for funding their schools had been “fractured”. Primarily overlooking the blame, the state lawmakers and school officials immediately pushed new plans to help relieve the situation of under funding. Sigo continues with the state’s plan to create a new funding formula for their schools and also the differences between the distributions of aid for other state’s. Currently in South Carolina, school funding is fixed upon the states market taxability. Sigo elaborates on a proposed 3 way allocation of the state formula: change the formula, overhaul the formula, or fully fund the student cost requirement.
Sigo brought light to a misstep in the process of setting forth an equal amount of education for children and students. After all that we’ve discovered about child development, it seems as if there needs to be a sacrifice children’s education with go first, which is entirely wrong. If funding formula’s for education do not tend to high poverty areas, and low income households, this may be the cause of larger class sizes, fewer resources for students, and over crowded schools. The children should not have their education stolen from them at such a prominent young age. With disregarding the blame, the issue should have been addressed, while fixing the school’s funding. Whoever did not calculate the correct amount of funding should be reevaluated to base their understanding and knowledge of their own job. If the funding issue had persisted longer, children would, soon enough, begin to perform lower educationally, as an end result, contributing to the poverty cycle.
S.C. Ruling for Poor School District Funding Positive: Moody’s.” The Bond Buyer 21 Nov. 2014. General OneFile. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.