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Key, Logan – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
This article presents the state education finance and governance profile of Alabama. The state is home to 1,538 public schools distributed across 67 county school systems and 64 city school systems. State spending is allocated via two separate budgets, "the general fund" for all noneducation related expenditures and the Education Trust…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Expenditures, Taxes, Elementary Secondary Education
Bulkley, Katrina – Education Law Center, 2007
Most of New Jersey's charter schools are located in the state's poorer, urban school districts, or "Abbott" districts, and exclusively serve students from those communities. A number of other schools are located outside of the Abbott districts but enroll students from these districts. Specifically, of the 50 charter schools operating in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Core Curriculum, Poverty