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McKeown-Moak, Mary P. – Educational Considerations, 2013
Over the past several years, public higher education, both in the U.S. and internationally, has increasingly been required to explain, defend, and validate its performance and value to a wide variety of constituents, including governors, legislators, students, parents, employers, and taxpayers. In addition, in 2006, then U.S. Secretary of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Accountability, Change Strategies
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Wood, R. Craig; Rolle, R. Anthony – Educational Considerations, 2007
State and private agencies have attempted to determine the costs of providing an "adequate" education for public elementary and secondary students. In order to identify adequacy target expenditures, four education finance models currently are found within the education finance research literature: (1) Professional Judgment Model; (2) Statistical…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Literature, Heuristics, Expenditure per Student
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Payne, Gary L.; Cambron-McCabe, Nelda H. – Educational Considerations, 1999
Recent research and a 1996 PBS documentary concluded that Ohio's educational finance system remains inequitable. Guarantees to districts facilitated equity, but assessed property valuation per pupil significantly predicted current operating expenditures during the 1980s. Effects of state loans, property tax limitations, and the lottery are…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas
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Theobald, Neil D.; Bull, Barry; Vesper, Nick – Educational Considerations, 1999
Indiana's school funding formula was developed in response to a lawsuit challenging the state's educational system's constitutionality. A reward-for-effort formula sets each school corporation's per-pupil noncategorical revenue, general fund property tax rate, and percentage of state aid. Funding for alternative education is planned for 1997. (MLH)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
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McKeown, Mary P. – Educational Considerations, 1997
Mixed messages--a legislature intending to repair school finance system inequities and a governor claiming the problem is "fixed" by a $100 million construction grant--characterized the beginning of Arizona's 1997 legislative session. Charter schools, school-based management, vouchers, and property-tax reforms are also discussed. (MLH)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers
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Green, Harry A. – Educational Considerations, 1999
The Education Improvement Act instigated funding allocation reform, equalization and equity, system accountability, systemwide report cards, value-added assessment, and governance reform. The most dissatisfied educators are those in large, wealthier urban systems. Horizontal equity, accountability, and test results have improved throughout the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Educational History