Agentic simulation platform
Public school funding is broken. Adequacy maps the damage.
Adequacy models funding gaps across public school districts and generates targeted reallocation recommendations — grounded in real public data.
The Problem
Redistribution alone cannot solve this.
The formula is working as designed. States that can raise more locally receive less from the state. But even the best-funded districts in Oregon are meeting less than 25% of adequacy targets. The formula successfully redistributes a shrinking pie — it does not make the pie larger.
The System
Five Agents. One Question.
Each agent operates as a specialist — gap identification, equity analysis, resource balancing, fair share allocation, and systemic oversight. Together they produce analysis that reveals not just what the gaps are, but why they exist and what would close them.
The Finding
The data confirms what the formula can't hide.
Region 18 ESD receives the least state support in the Oregon portfolio — not because it is being shortchanged, but because it raises the most locally. That is the formula working as intended.The problem is that even Region 18 ESD, the best-funded district in this analysis, meets only 25% of adequacy targets. Every other district performs worse. The equalization formula redistributes a pie that is too small to matter.
The Thesis
Who gets to define adequacy?
Most tools measure outputs. Adequacy is built to surface conditions — the structural forces that determine whether a district can provide a meaningful education before a single teacher walks into a classroom.The deeper question is not how to measure adequacy. It is who gets to define it, and whether agentic AI can make that question approachable at a scale that actually serves students and families.
What Adequacy answers
The questions policymakers actually need answered.
Adequacy is not a dashboard. It is a system that thinks alongside the people trying to fix public school funding.
Which districts have the largest gap between adequacy targets and actual funding — and why does that gap exist?
Is low state revenue a formula design flaw or a reflection of local wealth capacity?
If the state had $50 million to redistribute tomorrow, where would it have the most equity impact per dollar?
These are not hypothetical questions. Adequacy generates answers from real public data — grounded in district-level revenue, enrollment, and adequacy modeling across Oregon.
Thank you for your interest.
Adequacy is in active development. You will hear from us when Oregon district analysis is ready to share and early access opens.
Check out the new explainer on Adequacy v2. This time the focus is on Pennsylvania.