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Jacksonville Public Education Fund, 2020
In November 2020, Duval County voters will decide on a half-penny sales tax to fund upgrades to public school buildings across the district. Revenue will be spent to improve public school buildings for traditional and charter schools. Following the 2020 passage of House Bill 7097, revenue from the sales tax will be allocated to charter school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Taxes, Educational Facilities Improvement, School Buildings
DiPerna, Paul – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2012
The "Tennessee K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research Inc. (BRI), measures Tennessee registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education topics and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report response levels…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Familiarity, State Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education
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Geltner, Beverley B. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1994
Summarizes educational reform initiatives in Michigan, highlighting legislative actions such as the 1990 Public Act 25 ("the Quality Education Package"), professional certification reforms, experiments with school choice and charter schools, the Michigan Partnership for New Education; and abolition of property taxes to fund education.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Anderson, Patrick L.; Watkins, Scott D.; Cotton, Christopher S. – 2003
The research reported in this document was undertaken to determine the relative costs of educating a child in a charter school and a traditional public school in Michigan. To assess the costs, the following research was done: a review of the laws that govern public schools in Michigan; a review of the statutes that govern the funding of public…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Economics of Education, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation