Author: Educational Priorities PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Options in School Finance Reform in New York State
Author: Educational Priorities PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Politicians, Judges, and City Schools
Author: Joel S. BerkePublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610440471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves enormous financial complexity (for example, dividing resources among competing special programs) and political risk (such as balancing local control with the need for statewide parity). For those states (like New York) that were slow to make changes a new decade has brought new constraints and complications. Sluggish economic growth, taxpayer revolts, reductions in federal aid, all affect education revenues. And the current concern with educational excellence may obscure the needs of the poor and educationally disadvantaged. This book will provide New York's policy makers and other concerned specialists with a better understanding of the political, economic, and equity issues underlying the school finance reform debate. It details existing inequities, evaluates current financing formulas, and presents options for change. Most important, for all those concerned with education and public policy in New York and elsewhere, it offers a masterful assessment of the trade-offs involved in developing reform programs that balance the conflicting demands of resource equalization, political feasibility, and fiscal responsibility. "Synthesizes the political and fiscal research [on school finance reform] and applies it to the New York Context....A blueprint for how to redesign state school finance....A fine book." —Public Administration Review "This is a book that lucidly discusses the issues in school finance and provides valuable reference material." —American Political Science Review
The Future of School Finance Reform in New York State
Author: Gerard DuffyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Feasibility of School Finance Reform in New York State
Author: Paul E. HarenbergEquity and Adequacy in Education Finance
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309173957
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?
School Finance Reform in the States
Author: An Agenda for Equitable and Cost-effective School Finance Reform
Author: New York (State). Office of the State ComptrollerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Light Throught the Fog
Author: Travis DurfeeGoverning New York State
Author: Jeffrey M. StonecashPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791448885
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
An indispensable guide to New York State's politics, political institutions, and public policies.
Framing Equal Opportunity
Author: Michael ParisPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804772975
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they make affect politics and policy beyond the courtroom. Focusing on two of the most controversial and far-reaching court decisions in the nation in school finance and education reform, Framing Equal Opportunity follows lawyers and activists in New Jersey and Kentucky as they negotiate the complicated political terrain of educational change in their respective states. Unlike other books on law and reform, this work emphasizes the importance of legal translation—the process through which reformers transform their visions and goals into plausible legal claims. As it reveals, the kinds of arguments lawyers choose to make matter not only to their success in the courtroom, but also to the nature of the political fights they face in the community at large.