Funding for the Future
By: Thalia Altschul, Eszter Csordas, Ana Duss, Yuchang Jiang, Roselyn Rodriguez, Jessica Huang, Yingrui Yang, and Ziyue Zhang
Contributors: Haridat, Malla, Teacher
Publisher: Barnard Athena Center
Published: 2021
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Discrimination in education; Teenage girls; High school students; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease); Sex discrimination against women; Feminism; College students
Description: This zine is focused on the debilitating funding gaps in the American education system: schools in lower income areas receive less funding and opportunities than schools in affluent neighborhoods. The problem contains a racial element—schools with a higher proportion of Black, Latino, and Native American students receive less funding per student than majority white schools. The teen authors argue that to eliminate funding gaps and the divides they perpetuate, a website should be created to solicit donations for underfunded schools, and opportunity-enhancing clubs should be established for minority students. They conclude with a call to share funding, awareness, and resources. —Alekhya
Notes: Cover title.

This zine was made for the Barnard Pre-College Program (PCP), Young Women's Leadership Initiative (YWLI) Leadership in Action (LIA) class in summer 2021.

"We are all women from different economic classes, races and countries. We have Asian, European and American women in our group that wanted to work with the struggles of student from lower income families education (especially POC students) in the US."

This zine was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is not explicitly about the virus.

Printed in color from a pdf.

Freedoms and restrictions are not stated. Assume copyright.

Gift; student creators and Barnard Athena Center; 2021.
Table of contents: title: Big picture and solution --; title: Cultural nuances --; title: Educating yourself --; title: Effective conversation --; title: Comic break --; title: Self advocating --; title: What next? --