As states and school districts wrestle with how to spend an unprecedented flood of federal pandemic aid, a look in the rearview mirror shows long-term potholes in their existing K-12 spending patterns, including the effort they put into equitable funding. The EdWeek Research Center’s latest school finance analysis — based on 2018 federal data, the most recent available — captures widespread inconsistencies by state and by region in how the public dollar gets used to educate more than 50 million students.

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Source: Education Week, June 1, 2021. (Subscription may be required.)