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Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity / edited by John Yinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government aid to education--United States--States--Case studies.
- Government aid to education.
- Educational equalization--United States--States--Case studies.
- Educational equalization.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- An overview and five case studies of school finance reform; a resource for scholars, public officials, and others interested in education finance reform.
- Contents:
- I General Analysis of State Aid Reform
- 1 State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity: An Overview / John Yinger 3
- 2 Financing a Constitutional Education: Views from the Bench / Anna Lukemeyer 59
- 3 Funding and Accountability: Some Conceptual and Technical Issues in State Aid Reform / David N. Figlio 87
- 4 Prospects for Achieving Equity or Adequacy in Education: The Limits of State Aid in General Equilibrium / Thomas J. Nechyba 111
- II Analysis of State Aid Reforms in Individual States
- 5 The Impacts of School Finance Reform in Kansas: Equity Is in the Eye of the Beholder / William Duncombe, Jocelyn M. Johnston 147
- 6 A Decade of Reform: The Impact of School Reform in Kentucky / Ann E. Flanagan, Sheila E. Murray 195
- 7 School Finance Reform in Michigan: Evaluating Proposal A / Julie Berry Cullen, Susanna Loeb 215
- 8 School Finance Reform in Texas: A Never-Ending Story? / Jennifer Imazeki, Andrew Reschovsky 251
- 9 School Finance Reform and School Quality: Lessons from Vermont / Thomas Downes 283
- A A Guide to State Court Decisions on Education Finance / Yao Huang, Anna Lukemeyer, John Yinger 317
- B A Guide to State Operating Aid Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education / Yao Huang 331
- C A Guide to State Building Aid Formulas for Elementary and Secondary Education / Wen Wang 353.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-385) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262240467
- OCLC:
- 53369555
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