Arkansas issued the following announcement on July 22.
Disparities in spending on students with disabilities account for 39 percent, or $2,550, of the average per-pupil charter school funding gap, according to a new report issued today by a research team based at the U of A.
"Charter School Funding: Support for Students with Disabilities" examines the funding surrounding the education of students with disabilities in traditional and public charter schools during the 2017-18 school year in 18 major U.S. cities.
Across the 18 cities, traditional public schools received nearly $5 billion more in funding than the public charter schools in those same localities. While this study shows, on average, that the charter schools in these cities enrolled a smaller proportion of students with disabilities compared to their traditional public school counterparts (9.5 percent in charters, 13.1 percent in traditional schools), that differential only partially explains the funding gap. On average, disparities in spending on students with disabilities account for 39 percent, or $2,550, of the average per-pupil charter school funding gap, said Patrick J. Wolf, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and 21st Century Chair in School Choice in the Department of Education Reform at the U of A.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Arkansas
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