Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity / edited by John Yinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yinger, John, 1947-

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:

1 online resource (ix, 404 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Federal reform legislation declares, through its title, that no child should be left behind. Despite this, the sad truth is that many children are being left behind, particularly in large, poor, urban school districts. Because of this inequity, state supreme courts have thrown out the education finance systems in eighteen states, and many states have implemented major education finance reforms. These reforms have lessened disparities in educational spending but appear to have had little impact on disparities in educational performance. Helping Children Left Behind explores both the general issues in education finance reform and the experiences of five states to understand why these disparities persist and to design policies that address them. The book is a valuable resource for scholars, public officials, and others interested in education finance reform. The first part of the book addresses the general issues involved in reform of state aid to education. After a comprehensive introductory chapter that outlines such issues as selecting aid formulas, adjusting for disadvantaged students, district accountability, and school choice, the chapters in part I examine these issues in more depth, discussing court cases involving school finance reform, the relationship between funding and accountability, and the consequences and feedback effects of school aid reform policies, including the effect on residential patterns. The second part of the book consists of detailed case studies of recent ambitious school finance reform efforts in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, and Vermont. Three appendixes offer valuable reference material, describing significant state court decisions on school finance systems (through June 2003), state operating aid programs, and state building aid formulas.

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:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262286534

026228653X

9780262240468

0262240467

1417561939

9781417561933

OCLC:

57190281

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