Low-income White school districts annually receive $150 less per student than the national average, but approximately $1,500 more than low-income school districts where students of color make up at least three-quarters of the student body. Schools lack basic supplies, basic textbooks, healthy food and water. The lack of resources leads directly to diminished opportunities for learning. In other words, the racial problem is the opportunity gap, as antiracist reformers call it, not the achievement gap.
