A Study on The Fairness of Educational Finance of Middle Schools Affiliated To "Double First-Class" Universities

Abstract

Nowadays, educational equity is regarded as an important cornerstone of social equity, and educational financial equity is the key guarantee for achieving educational equity. With the continuous optimization of educational resources, key middle schools, especially those affiliated with Double First-Class universities, have become an important area of educational financial investment due to their unique resource advantages and policy inclinations. This study takes the Affiliated Middle School of Fudan University and the Affiliated Middle School of Southwest University as typical cases. It combines the comparative analysis of regional ordinary key middle schools to explore their financial sources, expenditure structure, and the mechanism of their role in educational equity. The study found that: first, there are regional differences in the " affiliation" of affiliated middle schools; second, the implicit resource allocation has aggravated the inter- school differentiation; third, the " nominal" trend of university support has emerged, and some affiliated middle schools rely on public financial grants, and the input of university resources is limited. Based on this, this paper puts forward policy recommendations from three aspects: first, strengthen the regional radiation function of affiliated middle schools and promote the co-construction and sharing of inter-school resources; second, improve the differentiated fiscal investment mechanism and enhance the adequacy of educational finance in underdeveloped areas; third, establish a dynamic evaluation system to guide the transformation of implicit resource allocation to balance.