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Direct linkLadd, Helen F., Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Hanushek, Eric A.; Lindseth, Alfred A. – Princeton University Press, 2009
Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Group Students, Public Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Wood, R. Craig; Thompson, David C. – 1996
The rationales for various state-finance distribution formulas, from 1896 to the present, are explained along with the rationales of the lawsuits questioning their validity. Chapter 1 describes attempts at financial equity from 1896 to the 1950s. Chapter 2 examines the current status of financing public education, emphasizing a state's obligation…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
West, Martin R., Ed.; Peterson, Paul E., Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2007
Adequacy lawsuits have, with little fanfare, emerged as a major alternative strategy in the pursuit of improved public education in the United States. Plaintiffs allege insufficient resources to provide students with the quality of education promised in their state's constitution, hoping the courts will step in and order the state to increase…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Public Policy, Educational Change, Court Litigation
