Report NM school funding suffers from lack of economic capacity / Public News Service

A new report says state funding for public schools has fallen off a "fiscal cliff" in 39 states, and that New Mexico is one of 10 states where some 60% of students attend school in "chronically underfunded" districts. According to the study, a dropoff in state funding in four out of five states began in 2006 during the Great Recession, but co-author Bruce Baker, a professor at the University of Miami, said New Mexico's economic ability to fund schools needs to be considered when looking at the data. "New Mexico spends a higher share of its economic capacity on schools than the national average because it has very weak, very low economic capacity," he said. " ...

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