Inequities in AISD Funding

On Friday, September 21, The Austin Chronicle published an article about a report made that highlighted the Inequities in AISD Funding. The article states that Texas Civil Rights Project director, Jim Harrington, discovered a funding gap between high achieving and struggling schools which shows a "lack of commitment" to helping poor and underachieving kids. Title I cash is supposed to help struggling kids, but instead is being manipulated by high achieving schools to obtain less important things for their own schools. Harrington blames the AISD's administration for not only turning a blind eye to the situation but for the poor state of the financial record keeping, and hopes that the school district will make changes voluntarily without getting the courts involved in the situation. I think it is interesting to find that funds which were meant to help the struggling and underachieving children are being misused in the hands of the people who are supposed to be helping them. Only time will tell what will happen in the wake of the report.