Mind Map by Dylan Hoan

Low Income Students + School Funding

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:32:51 UTC

Finland versus United States Funding

madison_saldana — 2025-04-15 21:33:24 UTC

Barriers that low income students face due to low funding

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:33:37 UTC

Strategies to support low income students (funding intensive and non intensive)

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:35:01 UTC

What is the LCFF?

madison_saldana — 2025-04-15 21:35:26 UTC

The photo above is the type of grants that schools in the U.S schools. Notice that base grants are based on attendance. Many scholars criticize this level of funding and would rather it be based off of enrollment.

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:36:40 UTC

This is a study that examines how the income segregation between different school districts contribute to the disparities and barriers in educational outcomes. Those schools who face higher levels of income segregation are connected with the higher inequalities in academic achievement between low-income and high-income students.

Proven strategies to improve reading skills for low income students

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:37:09 UTC

Proposed strategies to boost applications to elite colleges from high achieving low income students

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:37:59 UTC

Proven strategies to boost parental involvement in low income students' education

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:39:03 UTC

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:39:28 UTC

This explores the financial challenges that high achieving, low-income students face throughout their journey towards higher education. It shows that there is an unmet financial need and very limited access to a variety of essential resources that continue to contribute to the barriers they face.

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:41:29 UTC

This report focuses on the disparities in school funding across districts which shows how underfunding in low-income communities leads to significant educational inequities. It shows data that schools in high poverty communities have fewer resources which results in lower student achievement and low opportunities.

Proven strategies that benefit low income students' education in particular

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:43:22 UTC

Bianca Lorenz Mini Interview

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:45:46 UTC

Effect of various college support structures on FGLI students feelings

rickxu — 2025-04-15 21:47:19 UTC

How is Finland distributing money to school districts

madison_saldana — 2025-04-15 21:49:46 UTC

As you can see, there is quite a lot of money going toward comprehensive school education, which consists of students from 7th to 15th grade, which shows their dedication to primary and secondary education and then the next leading to university and vocational education.

Potential Barriers

estrellasanchez6 — 2025-04-15 21:58:02 UTC

Possible topics to discuss:

Limited Access to Resources:
- Textbooks
- Materials
- Technology
- basic supplies
- +more

Teachers/Proper education
- High turnover rates
- Large classes
- Little to no support staff
- +more

Lack of proper facilities
- Building conditions?
- Lack of specialized spaces (labs, music, art rooms etc..)
Lack of enrichment opportunities
- Limited extracurriculars
- No access to advanced courses
Lack of student support services
- Mental health
- Specific education
- Counseling
- College support
Overall lower college/career readiness
- No guidance counselors
- Limited test prep

What it looks like to change Michigan's funding system

madison_saldana — 2025-04-15 21:59:09 UTC

The article showed the removal of property taxes and instead there being a reliance on state funding. There was a sales tax increase, they say that the ideal way of taxing would be to tax progressively based on the ability to pay to give each student an equal education. Property tax being regressive was a theme in this article.

Property Taxes being the #1 way to fund schools

dilan420 — 2025-04-15 22:02:48 UTC

Finland First Generation Students

madison_saldana — 2025-04-15 22:03:07 UTC

First-generation Finland students had values in these three categories: family values, instructional values, and friendships. The use of encouragement to achieve a lot, family culture, equality policy, teacher support and encouragement, and role models are all qualities that first-generation students in Finland value. This is what helps students feel successful the most as a first generation student. THIS IS WHAT FINLAND INVESTS IN. Now, we need to know what type of program that entails and what it would look like financially to incorporate that into school districts. We also talked about a broader school curriculum. Maybe that is what allows for more room for conversation of the nurturing of these topics.

Alternative ways that states, such as California, has attempted to alleviate property taxes as the sole way to fund schools

dilan420 — 2025-04-15 22:07:46 UTC

Property Taxes account for 80% of school funding and it is inherently inequitable

dilan420 — 2025-04-15 22:23:44 UTC

Concentric Educational Solutions (provide funding outside of school to support students in need)

kelly_xu4 — 2025-04-17 21:28:08 UTC

Different states fund their schools differently which makes education unequal when it comes to college admissions.

dilan420 — 2025-04-17 21:32:06 UTC

New Jersey spends around 10,908$ per student compared to California’s 6795$ per student where states like New Jersey tend to have a higher educational outcome due to the higher taxation.

School finance formulas, help low income students with funding in education (not property taxes)

kelly_xu4 — 2025-04-17 21:32:12 UTC

Federal grants such as the EFIG was designed to incentivize states to increase overall education and promote equitable funding distribution within states but later found out that this grant had a negligible impact, further causing an economic issue.

dilan420 — 2025-04-17 21:39:33 UTC

States and Federal governments has realized that property taxes are not ideal and attempted other methods to fund schools

dilan420 — 2025-04-17 21:41:42 UTC