Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?
Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?
Reforming School Finance
Author: Robert Danton Reischauer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Textbook exploring fiscal administration problems involved in the financing of primary education and secondary education in the USA, with particular reference to unequal educational expenditure among public education school districts - discusses various programmes for tax reform and programmes for equalizing expenditure, legal aspects, the role of local governments, etc., and considers a possible revision of national economic policy and of the national budget for education. Bibliography pp. 175 to 179, references and statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Textbook exploring fiscal administration problems involved in the financing of primary education and secondary education in the USA, with particular reference to unequal educational expenditure among public education school districts - discusses various programmes for tax reform and programmes for equalizing expenditure, legal aspects, the role of local governments, etc., and considers a possible revision of national economic policy and of the national budget for education. Bibliography pp. 175 to 179, references and statistical tables.
Politicians, Judges, and City Schools
Author: Joel S. Berke
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves enormous financial complexity (for example, dividing resources among competing special programs) and political risk (such as balancing local control with the need for statewide parity). For those states (like New York) that were slow to make changes a new decade has brought new constraints and complications. Sluggish economic growth, taxpayer revolts, reductions in federal aid, all affect education revenues. And the current concern with educational excellence may obscure the needs of the poor and educationally disadvantaged. This book will provide New York's policy makers and other concerned specialists with a better understanding of the political, economic, and equity issues underlying the school finance reform debate. It details existing inequities, evaluates current financing formulas, and presents options for change. Most important, for all those concerned with education and public policy in New York and elsewhere, it offers a masterful assessment of the trade-offs involved in developing reform programs that balance the conflicting demands of resource equalization, political feasibility, and fiscal responsibility. "Synthesizes the political and fiscal research [on school finance reform] and applies it to the New York Context....A blueprint for how to redesign state school finance....A fine book." —Public Administration Review "This is a book that lucidly discusses the issues in school finance and provides valuable reference material." —American Political Science Review
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves enormous financial complexity (for example, dividing resources among competing special programs) and political risk (such as balancing local control with the need for statewide parity). For those states (like New York) that were slow to make changes a new decade has brought new constraints and complications. Sluggish economic growth, taxpayer revolts, reductions in federal aid, all affect education revenues. And the current concern with educational excellence may obscure the needs of the poor and educationally disadvantaged. This book will provide New York's policy makers and other concerned specialists with a better understanding of the political, economic, and equity issues underlying the school finance reform debate. It details existing inequities, evaluates current financing formulas, and presents options for change. Most important, for all those concerned with education and public policy in New York and elsewhere, it offers a masterful assessment of the trade-offs involved in developing reform programs that balance the conflicting demands of resource equalization, political feasibility, and fiscal responsibility. "Synthesizes the political and fiscal research [on school finance reform] and applies it to the New York Context....A blueprint for how to redesign state school finance....A fine book." —Public Administration Review "This is a book that lucidly discusses the issues in school finance and provides valuable reference material." —American Political Science Review
Reforming School Finance
Author: Robert D. Reischauer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608124698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780608124698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
School Finance Reform in the States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Reforming the International Financial System for Development
Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157649
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is assistant secretary general for economic development at the United Nations and research coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development. In 2007 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231157649
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is assistant secretary general for economic development at the United Nations and research coordinator for the G24 Intergovernmental Group on International Monetary Affairs and Development. In 2007 he was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. --Book Jacket.
How Should We Pay for Our Schools?
Author: Robert W. Hartman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Reforming School Finance Systems to Achieve Equity in Funding Education
Author: Yousef Awwad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The Quest for Justice
Author: Richard Lehne
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582280366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780582280366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Education and the Public Interest
Author: Edward P. St. John
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402052480
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. This book provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies over the past decades. It includes a discussion of the need for a fundamental rethinking of educational policy in the United States.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402052480
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. This book provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies over the past decades. It includes a discussion of the need for a fundamental rethinking of educational policy in the United States.