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Education Funding in North Carolina: What is Adequate? What is Equitable?

February 21, 2018

ERS’sChief Executive Officer and PresidentKaren Hawley Miles presented to the Governor’s Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education in North Carolina, focusing on the following four questions:

  • What does a state funding system need to accomplish?
  • What does “adequacy” in education funding really mean?
  • What would it mean to allocate resources equitably?
  • How might a state system support excellence and efficiency?

Access to a Sound Basic Education from Education Resource Strategies