Author: John Joseph CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
School Finance Reform
Author: John Joseph CallahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
School Finance Reform
Author: National Conference of State Legislatures. Legislators' Education Action ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Selected Papers in School Finance
Author: Selected Papers in School Finance, 1976
Author: Resources in Education
Author: School Finance Reform in the States
Author: Part 13, School Finance Act of 1977 and Equalization Efforts
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
School Finance
Author: DIANE Publishing CompanyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788131176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
This report reviews the experiences of selected states that had recently reformed their school finance systems to make them more equitable. The reforms to the school finance systems and the legal, budgetary, and political pressures the state legislature faced in making the revisions are examined. The general impact of the legislative remedy in addressing disparities in educational funding is reviewed. Charts, tables and graphs.
Money, Mandates, and Local Control in American Public Education
Author: Bryan ShellyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472117653
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Pointing to the disparities between wealthy and impoverished school districts in areas where revenue depends primarily upon local taxes, reformers repeatedly call for the centralization of school funding. Their proposals meet resistance from citizens, elected officials, and school administrators who fear the loss of local autonomy. Bryan Shelly finds, however, that local autonomy has already been compromised by federal and state governments, which exercise a tremendous amount of control over public education despite their small contribution to a school system's funding. This disproportionate relationship between funding and control allows state and federal officials to pass education policy yet excuses them from supplying adequate funding for new programs. The resulting unfunded and underfunded mandates and regulations, Shelly insists, are the true cause of the loss of community control over public education. Shelly outlines the effects of the most infamous of underfunded federal mandates, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), and explores why schools implemented it despite its unpopularity and out-of-pocket costs. Shelly's findings hold significant implications for school finance reform, NCLB, and the future of intergovernmental relations.
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses
Author: Eric A. HanushekPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400830257
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Improving public schools through performance-based funding 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 students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education.