Targeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school funding election. We use close tax elections in 9 states…

This study of the financing of Wisconsin University Centers, branch campuses of the state universities, and associate-degree technical education focuses on the cost to the student, to supporting localities, and to the state. Interest in the subject was prompted by apparent inconsistencies in financial support levels and aid formulas among the…