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Transfer Equity, Pt. 2: Community Colleges
Educational Equity and Justice Jeramy Wallace Educational Equity and Justice Jeramy Wallace

Transfer Equity, Pt. 2: Community Colleges

In last month’s blog, I discussed the decision by my daughter’s school district foundation to allocate the majority of their resources to the three poorest schools in the district, which inadvertently created an “enrichment gap” between these schools and wealthier schools like my daughter’s. These funds were used for reading and math support and mental health, which promotes educational equity in one sense, but ultimately created inequities in art, music, STEM, and other enrichment activities since the wealthier schools used the vast majority of their fundraising dollars for these types of activities instead. In other words, the students would all enter high school on an equal footing in math, reading, and emotional wellness; however, even with such equality, the students from the wealthier schools would enter with more “educational wealth.” In this blog, I argue for what I term “transfer equity,” a form of educational wealth building that provides students not only with basic skills and needs but also with the educational opportunities needed for future academic success, in community colleges.

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