Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education FundingSpringer Science & Business Media, 2005 M01 7 - 224 pages This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and conferences that have focused on the issue of public education reform, it is reasonable to ask whether the world needs still another volume on this subject. In my defense, I would argue that, although there is a large literature on public education reform, there is precious little that tries to sketch the big picture. Too often, both in research and in practice, it is easy to lose sight of the forest, for all the focus on the individual trees. While such detailed analysis is of critical value, that value derives both from its specificity and from its ability to fit into a larger, coherent whole. Unfortunately, our understanding of the public education process is still incomplete and disconnected, particularly with regard to the connections between research, policy, and practice. This book is an attempt to step back for a moment to get one's bearings before jumping headlong back into the forest. It is my hope that this book will be of value to a wide variety of reader- researchers in departments of economics and schools of education, policy makers at all levels, and, of course, the practitioners slogging away in the trenches. |
Contents
A General Theory of Intergovernmental Grants | 15 |
Theory of Public Education Funding with Court Intervention | 43 |
Assessing the Empirical Validity of the Theory | 79 |
A Legislative and Legal History of Public Education Funding | 109 |
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adequacy education clause aggregate argue assessment associated budget constraint categorical grants Chapter charter schools clause qua adequacy Connecticut constituents court order decision desegregation dominant political coalition donor government DPE grant structure economic education clause qua educational grant structure effect equal protection Equation federal Figure fiscal illusion foundation grant structure grant bases grant rate income increase indifference curves individual grant programs intergovernmental grant programs intergovernmental grants system issue jurisdictions Kentucky Supreme Court Ladd legislative legislature level of per-pupil local school districts magnet schools minimum number of grant outcome per-pupil educational expenditures per-pupil expenditure levels per-student pivotal voter's political asymmetry political benefit political loss political support property tax Proposition 13 public education funding public education reform public schools qua adequacy education result school district per-pupil Serrano set of grant spending disparities spending school districts spillovers standards student performance support for public tax base tax price tax rate teachers