Funding Education Equitably: The ‘Comparability Provision’ and the Move to Fair and Transparent School Budgeting Systems

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 28, 2011.  Today the Center for American Progress, or CAP, released a report that looks at the issues districts face when they attempt to design fair and transparent school funding systems. “Funding Education Equitably: The ‘Comparability Provision’ and the Move to Fair and Transparent School Budgeting Systems” by Saba Bireda focuses on what would happen if the federal government closed a legal loophole that deprives high-poverty schools of needed resources.