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Buckeye Institute for NEPC Review: Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An Analysis of Intra-district Spending Patterns in Ohio (August 2007)

Ohio’s Buckeye Institute, in Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An Analysis of Intra-district Spending Patterns in Ohio, argued against increased state funding for school districts on the grounds that those districts did not fairly allocate money to schools serving disadvantaged students. The review of the report raised serious questions about the validity of the calculations and conclusions. But beyond that, we were somewhat taken aback by the report’s novel argument which was essentially, 'Because we care about disadvantaged students getting insufficient resources, we recommend against more state funding.'