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5 Impact of Finances on the Educational Pipeline
5 Impact of Finances on the Educational Pipeline
Pages 47-58
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. • Black students are more likely to enter medical school with fewer family resources and to leave with larger amounts of debt (Ms.
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, Dr. Louis Sullivan spoke of family financial situations as a barrier to Black students entering medical school.
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Using Tacoma, Washington, as an example, she traced the impact of racist housing policies on property values, school funding, and ultimately student performance. In Tacoma, as in most other locales, the federal government and financial institutions defined neighborhoods by perceived risk level.
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Residing in so-called riskier areas affected access to credit, property values, and other ways to build wealth. Often the presence of a single Black family in a neighborhood was enough for federal regulators and bankers to define a neighborhood as "declining." Racism in housing policy reverberated in other ways, including racial covenants, the closure of suburbs to Black
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Public school funding comes, in general, 45 percent from local, 45 percent from state, and 10 percent from federal sources. Most local money comes from property taxes.
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About 80 percent of white students enter medical school without debt, compared with only 40 percent of Black students. Conversely, about 20 percent of Black students are entering medical school with $50,000 or more of debt compared with about 5 percent of white students, and this is before they take on the additional burden of medical school education.
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asked students about the extent that their social class influenced their medical school experiences. Thirty percent of working class and poor students reported their SES negatively affected their medical school experiences, a much higher number than those in other classes.
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Nguyen said, underrepresented minority students are more likely to have a large amount of medical education debt, which influences their career choices. Educational debt among underrepresented minority students may indirectly exacerbate health disparities.
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Morgan explained the study methodology behind the Ed Trust and EdBuild analyses in greater detail. With continued reliance on property taxes as the principal source of local school funding, Ms.
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Dr. Boatright added that tuition contributes less than 2 percent of Yale School of Medicine's annual revenue, as reported to the council by the medical school dean.
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2005. Everyday classism in medical school: Experiencing marginality and resis tance.
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