Ensure that all students have access to an equal and high-quality public education by eliminating education-related racial and ethnic disparities.
| Target Area: | Ensuring resource equity | Increasing teacher quality | Promoting parent and family engagement | Enahncing early childhood and literacy initiatives |
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| Definition: | Ensure intra-state and intra-district equity in funding; focus on math and science | Working to improve the percentage of teacher certifications; increase professional development opportunities, salaries, benefits | Make schools more parent/family friendly; ensure that school districts develop to engage parents in educational process | Enhance early childhood education and literacy |
| Size of Gap: |
Gap between per student revenues in highest and lowest minority districts is $614
Gap between per student revenues in highest and lowest poverty districts is $907 |
78% of high minority schools have math teachers who are teaching out of their subject area | On average, black families are less likely than white families to have managed reading, television and homework time | White kindergartners' average mean score is 40 while Black kindergarteners' mean score is 34 |
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