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Bruce D. Baker
@schoolfinance101.bsky.social
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Professor, Education Finance & Policy
Personal Website: https://schoolfinance101.com
School Finance Indicators Database: https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/
Books: https://hep.gse.harvard.edu/author/bruce-d-baker/

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Sociology 22%
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schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
We are so far beyond Idiocracy!!!!!
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d
Following Logan Paul's Pentagon cameo, diplomatic cable leaked to me touts admin's work with Nicki Minaj "to combat the persecution of Christians” and Tim Tebow’s efforts “to end child trafficking":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-full-...
Leak: Full Metal Jackasses
Logan Paul’s Pentagon cameo follows Nicki Minaj, Tim Tebow UN stunts
www.kenklippenstein.com

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
it is my life's work!

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
I assure you that my goal is to "fix" the reality not to like it as is.

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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d
Following Logan Paul's Pentagon cameo, diplomatic cable leaked to me touts admin's work with Nicki Minaj "to combat the persecution of Christians” and Tim Tebow’s efforts “to end child trafficking":
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-full-...
Leak: Full Metal Jackasses
Logan Paul’s Pentagon cameo follows Nicki Minaj, Tim Tebow UN stunts
www.kenklippenstein.com

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
fair enough

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
Here's one for ya'

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
It's more, and worse than that alone, as we discuss here: www.shankerinstitute.org/segfunding and in a new book: schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/u...
Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity
A descriptive analysis of the historical and contemporary relationship between racial segregation and K-12 school funding.
www.shankerinstitute.org

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
A formula to accomplish this: www.shankerinstitute.org/fedformula
Ensuring Adequate Education Funding For All: A New Federal Foundation Aid Formula
A proposal for and simulation of a new "foundation formula" approach to federal K-12 funding, one in which federal funds are allocated based not only on student need (as is currently the case), but al...
www.shankerinstitute.org

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
NC in 2009 vs NC in 2024

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
I know. And enforcement varies widely across states. But the existence of a ruling that the constitution was enforceable is at least something. Or was.

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
Not a simple, clean, descriptive relationship between funding adequacy and constitutional enforcement - but those states with enforced compliance do have generally the most adequate funding:

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
ongoing notes & data collection schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/u...
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schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
Yes - judges in some states like NC have permanently reversed decades of precedents and in other states like FL have ignored the public will (as expressed in constitutional referenda) schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/u...

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
Here's inequity & inadequacy in NY state (but not for NYC), against current average outcomes as a goal, and against a higher standard.

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
This! And here's a) the inequity and b) how the system has become even less adequate:

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
And the funding gap to outcome gap animation to go with it:

schoolfinance101.bsky.social
Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2d
An animation of national school funding adequacy from 2009 to 2024 - against the cost of achieving national average reading and math scores between 2013 & 2015