Equitable Finance and Budgeting

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This course examines the issue of school funding gaps that persistently exist in the country. Students will learn histories of school funding gaps from perspectives of equity, adequacy, and social justice and understand how these gaps lead to systematic gaps in opportunities to learn and academic achievement. Students will study how to analyze and identify funding gaps, make equitable resource allocation to narrow these gaps, and evaluate/assess its outcomes using a cost-effectiveness analysis framework.