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Direct linkDonna Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Education ensures that children from all backgrounds have equal opportunities to succeed. Yet, the education provided for many K-12 students in the state of Texas may not be equal due to the allocation of school funds under House Bill 3 (H.B. 3). To date, the Revenue to Population (RTP) Index and other normalized statistical metrics have not been…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Resource Allocation
Peer reviewedPutnam, Michael; Cabrera, Jill – SAGE Open, 2015
The funding mechanism for the public schools in the state of Mississippi had been surprisingly stable for a number of years. The funding formula existed in its same form for over a half century before it was substantially changed in 1994 when the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) legislation was passed. This is the first external…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, State Programs, Public Schools
Sweetland, Scott R. – Educational Considerations, 2012
Superintendents and other school administrators live with tensions in political economy. The voting public believes school funding is fixed when the economy expands and new state programs are introduced. Administrators are publicly criticized when, strained for resources, their schools cannot perform within the "do more with less" paradigm. This…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Schools, State Programs, Politics of Education
Download full textExecutive Office of the President, 2011
On September 8, 2011, the President proposed the American Jobs Act to Congress, including investments of $25 billion to renovate and modernize at least 35,000 of America's public schools; $5 billion to upgrade infrastructure at America's community colleges; and $30 billion to keep hundreds of thousands of educators in the classroom. This report…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Wiesman, Karen Wheeler – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Funding public schools has been an ongoing struggle since the inception of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson's "A General Diffusion of Knowledge" that charged the states with properly funding public schools, to the current day legal battles that continue in states across the Union, America struggles with finding a solution to…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Public Schools, State Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Gottlob, Brian – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2008
This study seeks to inform the debate over a proposal in Georgia to give tax credits for contributions to organizations that provide scholarships to K-12 private schools. Such a program would extend to K-12 education the philosophy of choice that is inherent in the state's existing Hope Scholarships program for college students. This study…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Tax Credits
