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Issue Position: Fiscal Fairness

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income K-12 Education

The ESEA Fiscal Fairness Act, H.R. 5071 -- amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which is up for reauthorization this year, and a takes giant step toward achieving the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in schools but has left unfulfilled the promise of equal opportunity in all our schools. The measure requires school districts to equalize the real dollars spent among all schools within its jurisdiction -- with the imperative to raise the resources allotted to schools in the poorest neighborhoods to meet those in well-off schools -- before receiving federal aid.


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