The Myth of the ‘Underfunded School’

The Myth of the ‘Underfunded School’ - John Hirschauer

• A new report casts doubt on the old “underfunded schools” trope.

"It is hard to think of a pathology in American urban life, from crime to poverty to fatherlessness, that is not blamed on “underfunded schools.” 

Progressives conjure up images of a run-down schoolhouse with moldy walls, tattered decades-old textbooks, and musty blackboards to explain away the decades of academic underperformance and high drop-out, truancy, and delinquency rates in inner-city schools...