Luxury Cars & Million Dollar Homes, But There's Inequity In Our Public Schools
The Pasadena Education Facebook page is a great place for information. An article from The Stanford Daily was posted today about a Stanford study and the inequity in our public schools. It is titled "Stanford-coordinated study finds persistent inequities in California public schools." One of our parents wrote this insightful comment: The main thing that stood out for me was the paradox -- that isn't news to anyone here -- of a school district perpetually struggling with funding crises despite the abundance of multi-million-dollar homes and frequent sightings of luxury vehicles on our streets and in our parking garages. McKinley is a particularly striking example, being located within walking distance of Pasadena's financial center...and several high-end shopping and dining destinations. Yet we keep having to fight for every dollar, to repeatedly justify vital resources, never mind the ongoing dream of installing a shade structure so that our children don...