Funding Equity

Inequities in funding are foundational to all sorts of other inequities in our schools. Yet as a nation, we continue to spend less on educating our low-income students and students of color — the very students who could benefit most from additional support in their schools.

To call attention to these inequities and spur action to turn them around, we:

•  Provide data tools and analysis that highlight funding gaps between high- and low-poverty districts as well as between districts serving the most and the fewest students of color, nationally and within each state
• Spotlight — and advocate for closing — gaps that often remain hidden: those between high- and low-poverty schools within the same school district
• Fight to ensure that federal Title I dollars flow to the high-poverty schools and districts that need them most.

Funding Gaps 2018: An Analysis of School Funding Equity Across the U.S. and Within Each State

Funding Gaps 2015: Too Many States Still Spend Less on Educating Students Who Need the Most

State of Funding Equity Data Tool

Ed Trust Analysis: Likely Effects of Portability on Districts’ Title 1 Allocations

Ed Trust Comments on Senate HELP Committee Draft ESEA Reauthorization Bill

Close the Hidden Funding Gaps in Our Schools