Source: Education Week
Education researchers, who include NYU’s Amy Ellen Schwartz of the Institute for Education and Social Policy and Leanna Stiefel of the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, see the merits of weighted-student funding, in which more resources are directed to students with greater needs, but note that this approach does present challenges for policy makers.
“Weighted-student funding may provide a strong incentive for schools to specialize in serving certain groups of students, a result that may be cost-effective but threatens to lead to greater stratification and segregation of students across schools,” they write in an opinion piece in the Aug. 9 issue of Education Week. “Safeguards should be built into the system to guard against these and other potential negative side effects.”