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School Finance Reform in Pennsylvania: A Progress Report from the Trenches.
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Strauss, Robert P. – 1990
A description and analysis of two failed local finance reform efforts in Pennsylvania between 1987 and 1989--a blue ribbon tax reform commission and a state constitutional amendment--are presented in this report. Constraints imposed during the reform design stage and two political "tar pits"--household/business proportion of local taxes,…
Descriptors: Blue Ribbon Commissions, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education