High-poverty K-12 RI public school districts get less funding than wealthy ones, report shows
“Baker said funding disparities between wealthy and poor school districts are a persistent problem that state lawmakers never got around to solving.
‘I’m disappointed we haven’t been able to do more, faster,’ said state Sen. Ryan Pearson, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, which has closely examined Rhode Island’s decade-old education funding formula. ‘There’s no doubt about that.’
Pearson helped lead a Senate task force to study Rhode Island’s education funding formula in 2019. The task force published many of the same findings and recommendations in January 2020 that were included in Baker’s report.”