Ending Interstate Funding Inequality A Call To Revolt Against The K 12 Status Quo
Ending Interstate Funding Inequality A Call To Revolt Against The K 12 Status Quo
A Call to Revolt Against the K–12 Status Quo
Target Audience: School Board Trustees, Superintendents & Other K–12 Influencers
A provocative call for school leaders to move beyond managing inequality to dismantling it.
Drawing on 20 years as a CPA-auditor of school systems, eight years as an elected school board trustee, and 11 years as an assistant superintendent/chief business official, and six months as interim superintendent (contemporaneous with the assistant superintendent position), Rolland B exposes the “Grand Canyon-sized” funding gaps between states. In FY 2020, the ten lowest-funded states spent less than half as much per pupil as the ten highest-funded states. A child’s educational opportunity should not depend on which state that child happens to live in. Yet today, it does.
Calling this a “funding lottery,” Rolland is spearheading, soon, the ENDING INTERSTATE FUNDING INEQUALITY campaign, a signature-gathering petition calling on the U.S. Congress to pass the first-ever Federal Equality in Education Act (FEEA), which would raise the funding floor and equalize funding among the states while keeping curriculum, administration, and governance in local hands.
Drawing on his book Revolt Against the K–12 Status Quo, this keynote blends hard numbers, constitutional principles, and an immigrant’s appreciation for American democracy into a powerful call for action.
Audience Takeaway: A clearer understanding of interstate funding inequality and a compelling vision for the American people proactively helping to “bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice” by making equality of educational opportunity a national priority.
“Equality in education isn’t just policy. It is the promise of American democracy.” – Rolland
Keynote: Make educational opportunity more equal.
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