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Four steps to improve US schools that (almost) everyone supports

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“A longstanding belief that giving school districts more money won’t really result in academic improvements for low-income kids has been challenged by recent research that is convincing many policymakers that money really does matter.

For example, for low-income children, a 22 percent increase in per-pupil spending for 12 years could eliminate the education gap between poor and nonpoor families, according to a study published in 2015 by Kirabo Jackson, a labor economist who researches education at Northwestern University, and two co-researchers. It also found that such spending has effects on students’ later earnings as adults.”

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