Letters: Poverty and school funding
Re “Poverty’s new address is in suburbs,” May 20
This eye-opening study, which shows that more poor people now live in suburbs than in urban areas, indirectly highlights one of the major failings of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed school funding formula, which favors the urban poor.
The impact of the last recession was so deep and broad, no place was unaffected. The number of homeless, hungry and uninsured schoolchildren has grown sharply in Orange County schools, even in districts like Irvine.
Poverty is poverty. The governor should let state education funds follow every student in need regardless of where they live rather than stack the deck in favor of the urban poor.
Gavin Huntley-Fenner
Irvine
The writer is president of the Irvine Unified School District Board of Education.
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