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In the Media
May 15, 2024
Fresh Take on Inequity in School Funding
"Swarthmore College Visiting Assistant Professor Roseann Liu’s provocative new book, Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve (University of Chicago Press, 2024), traces the roots of systemic racism in school funding and clarifies how inequity is perpetuated."
May 2, 2024
Why Can’t We Make School Funding Equitable?
"In a perfect world, every school would have all the money it needs, but that is clearly not the case now. In her new book, "Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve", Dr. Roseann Liu, visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College, digs into school funding and why it is almost always children of color that get shortchanged."
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