Study: Nevada failing poor students
By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun
Nevada fails to provide adequate school funding to poor children, according to a national report.
Every two years, the Education Law Center publishes a report card that grades states on how fairly they distribute per-pupil funding to schools.
Education researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey looked at several indicators to determine whether a state provides school funding fairly. These indicators ranged from how much state and local tax revenue is devoted to education to how much school funding goes to poor children.
Nevada received an overall grade of “F,” based on Rutgers researchers’ analysis.
