>> Alabama’s wealthiest school district (and also one of its whitest), Mountain Brook, in suburban Birmingham, spent nearly twice as much per student as the state’s poorest, Roanoke, in a declining manufacturing town about two hours southeast.

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>IOW, schools in poor communities were underfunded. The courts said make the funding fair. Sessions said "no."
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Agreed.
That's one of many reasons I've never stepped foot in that state.


>>Jersey is under court order to give extra money to the 31 poorest districts thanks to a three-decade case known as Abbott v. Burke that sought to equalize expenditures with the richest districts.

Over the past 30 years, New Jersey taxpayers have sent $97 billion to those 31 systems, while the other 546 have received $9 billion less, Christie said in a speech Tuesday at a school in Hillsborough.

Those districts represent 23 percent of the students and receive 59 percent of state aid, he said. >>


Adding fuel to the fire is the sad fact that the additional monies have had the reverse effect. The lower-aided systems produce better students.

If Sessions was wrong to funnel more money to rich white districts- and he was- as was just about every other white person below the Mason Dixon line at that time- why is it OK to do the reverse?

If state aid were distributed equally real estate taxes here in Hamilton would be quite a bit lower.

We have many fixed income retirees in my community who have a hard time understanding why their tax dollars are being used to fund failing schools in Newark.

You can be pretty sure that they all voted for Trump.