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A Complexity Response to Funding Public Education

Financing public education and assuring compliance in terms of achievement, accountability and access is a challenge both for governmental entities and school districts. Tying the federal dollar to criteria for academic progress yielded many reforms in public education, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Unfortunately, these reforms failed to achieve their intended goals because of their linear approach toward problem-solving. Treating the financing of public education from a complexity perspective and utilizing approaches such as the Agent-Based Model not only would uncover the fallacies of the linear approaches but also offer new directions and possibilities toward progress that can utilize autonomy, interconnectedness, mutual causality, and shared responsiveness. This article briefly examines the state of public education in the United States from the early 1700s until today, the major challenges that face public education, NCLB and its shortcoming as the latest reform in financing public education, and then offers a complexity approach to solving this problem.