Low-income school districts are receiving 'game changer' Student Opportunity Act funding. Will achievement gaps finally shrink? - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : State funding makes up a smaller fraction of school budgets in affluent cities like Newton, Wellesley, and Cambridge, which spend $20,000 to $30,000 per student, Jones said, but the state funds the vast majority of education expenses in lower-income communities like Lawrence, Holyoke, and Revere, which typically spend $13,000 to $15,000 per student.
50% : The Student Opportunity Act nearly doubles the state funding that the state's poorest communities receive for each low-income student, from $4,600 to $8,800 per child.
46% : "This will allow public schools in communities that have struggled to now have the resources and staffing that all students deserve," said state Senator Jason Lewis, a Winchester Democrat and co-chair of the Legislature's education committee.
46% : Many low-income school districts say they're starting from a deficit due to their reliance on state funding, which they say for years didn't keep up with rising costs, especially in employee health care.

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