This book is designed to provide public officials, leaders of organizations concerned with school funding issues, and citizens active in educational affairs with information about the political, economic, and equity issues that underlie the school finance reform debate in New York State. It discusses present inequities and potential approaches to…

Discusses the interplay of legal, fiscal, and educational policy surrounding the implementation of the New Jersey landmark decision, Robinson vs Cahill. (Author)

Raising adequate revenues for educational support has become a problem in many of the nation's school systems, but hardest hit are big-city and urban systems. This crisis exists because cities cannot support educational services with available tax resources, because urban educational costs are higher than those in the suburbs, and because cities…

Although federal aid is not a large portion of school funding, it has a large effect on schools. Federal education aid flows mainly to poor states, central cities, and rural areas. Where states exercise discretion in allocating federal aid, distribution follows the general distribution pattern of the basic state aid formula. If a state has an…

Describes the failure to raise adequate school revenues through equitable means and the inability to allocate resources in an effective and equitable manner. (Author)

This study of the fiscal, legal, and political dimensions of reform in American school finance responds to the challenge of San Antonio Independent School District vs. Rodriguez. The book focuses specifically on the State of Texas and the way in which injustices were analyzed for the landmark Rodriguez case. The book goes on to describe the role…

1974 is a watershed for New Jersey public schools, a time when the State is under court order to reform its discriminatory and ineffective method of raising and distributing educational revenues. The existing approach to financing education in the state of New Jersey assigns higher educational resources to pupils in richer school districts, yet…

This document provides background information intended to help in the formulation of educational finance policy at the national level. The first chapter discusses variations in spending within and between states since the 1930s; causes for inequitable and inefficient revenue raising and resource allocation; and differences between states in…