Black and Latino parents worried about funding disparities in schools, poll finds [EdSource.org]

Black and Latino parents nationwide are convinced that racially based disparities in funding hurt their children’s education and want their youngsters to be more challenged academically, according to a new survey by a civil rights organization.

The national poll sponsored by the Leadership Conference Education Fund found that 90 percent of African-American parents and 57 percent of Latinos think that K-12 schools in their minority communities receive less funding than schools in white areas.

[For more of this story, written by Larry Gordon, got to https://edsource.org/2017/poll...es-in-schools/581236]