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Education finance sets the foundation for what is possible in schools. Creating greater equity in education finance can help to level the playing field for underserved students, but there are political barriers to change.

What is the political reality for creating, implementing, and improving equitable state school finance systems? Hear from legislators and advocates on their efforts to create more equitable funding for students in their states, what work still needs to be done, and lessons learned to ensure that finance and inequity no longer shortchange students.

Participants: 

• John Cullerton, former president, Illinois Senate
• Jamilah Prince-Stewart, executive director, FaithActs for Education (Connecticut)
• Bonnie O’Keefe, associate partner, Bellwether Education Partners
• Jennifer O’Neal Schiess, partner, Bellwether Education Partners

Learn more:

• Read Splitting the Bill: Understanding Education Finance Equity, a crash course in the fundamentals of education finance.
• Download additional resources on inequity and funding in Shortchanged: Funding Inequity in Schools.