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Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity /

Federal reform legislation declares, through its title, that no child should be left behind. Despite this, the sad truth is that many children are being left behind, particularly in large, poor, urban school districts. Because of this inequity, state supreme courts have thrown out the education fina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Yinger, John, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. GENERAL ANALYSIS OF STATE AID REFORM
  • State aid and the pursuit of educational equity: an overview / John Yinger
  • Financing a constitutional education: views from the bench / Anna Lukemeyer
  • Funding and accountability: some conceptual and technical issues in state aid reform / David N. Figlio
  • Prospects for achieving equity or adequacy in education: the limits of state aid in general equilibrium / Thomas J. Nechyba
  • II. ANALYSIS OF STATE AID REFORMS IN INDIVIDUAL STATES
  • The impacts of school finance reform in Kansas: equity is in the eye of the beholder / William Duncombe, Jocelyn M. Johnston
  • A decade of reform: the impact of school reform in Kentucky / Ann E. Flanagan, Sheila E. Murray
  • School finance reform in Michigan: evaluating proposal A / Julie Berry Cullen, Susanna Loeb
  • School finance reform in Texas: a never-ending story? / Jennifer Imazeki, Andrew Reschovsky
  • School finance reform and school quality: lessons from Vermont / Thomas Downes
  • APPENDIXES:
  • A. A guide to state court decisions on education finance / Yao Huang, Anna Lukemeyer, John Yinger
  • B. A guide to state operating aid programs for elementary and secondary education / Yao Huang
  • C. A guide to state building aid formulas for elementary and secondary education / Wen Wang.