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How reparations can be paid through school finance reform

  • Written by Preston Green III, John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education, University of Connecticut
How reparations can be paid through school finance reformSchools in predominantly Black communities receive less funding, even though Black homeowners pay higher tax rates.Carl Iwasaki/Getty Images

White public schools have always gotten more money than Black public schools. These funding disparities go back to the so-called “separate but equal” era – which was enshrined into the...

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