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Rethinking how public education can dismantle educational inequality and work for equality and equity is up to us. We need to ask our government to put more money into low-income school districts to lessen the effects of poverty. There will be more chances for low-income students and students of colour if more progressive funding practices are used.
Here are some ideas for a fair public school system and a successful educational justice movement:
- Realistically, the first thing that could be done is to cut class differences between students by not using the property tax as a main source of money. This is a big reason why there is a lot of inequality in education. Low-income students, by default, will get less. Instead, the state government should come up with bigger projects and budgets to make sure everyone gets the same amount of money, especially those living in poverty.
- Stop the growth of charter and private schools because they aren't affordable for all students and it creates a lot of different groups of people.
- Test-based funding should not be given more priority because it is unfair to less well-off students.
- As a way to keep teachers, pay them more money and give them more benefits, like health insurance. This will greatly impact the rise of poverty and focus on quality education.
- Invest more money in low-income, underfunded schools to help them, like more special education specialists and counsellors.
- School to prison pipeline: Dismantle it by using more restorative justice and less money for cops in schools to do good deeds. This will raise more money for education justice projects and help stop the over-policing of minorities in schools.
- To make sure that public sectors like public education and support for low-income families get enough money. For us to obliterate the effects of poverty, we should support efforts to get rid of capitalism's influence in our social sector and support an economy that taxes the wealthy at a high rate.
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