Regional Equity

he regional equity movement provides another lens through which to examine both education finance issues and opportunities to learn. The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project, for instance, argues against land use patterns that exclude low- and moderate-income housing, thus excluding low- and moderate-income children from having opportunities to attend successful schools. At the same time, the First Suburbs Project argues that Pennsylvania’s historic over-reliance on property taxes to fund public education contributed to the blighting of older, developed communities.