School Funding Basics: A Left Perspective
On August 21, the Buxmont Democratic Socialists of America invited me to give a short presentation on school funding for their lunch debt campaign. They're working with the Debt Collective on this too. Thanks to Jason Wozniak, Ron Joseph, and other Buxmont comrades for inviting me.
The presentation was a distillation of several years' worth of thinking about school funding as a socialist. For this week's newsletter, with permission of the organizers, here's the presentation with my nasally voice, slides, and all.
The presentation also pairs well with Eleni Schirmer's fantastic recent essay in the New York Times on debt-financing in public schools, which features a clear look at the injustices therein and some of the movements addressing it (as well as references to readers of this very newsletter!).