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9780205354986

School Finance Achieving High Standards with Equity and Efficiency

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205354986

  • ISBN10:

    020535498X

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-02
  • Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

School Finance: Achieving High Standards with Equity and Efficiency explores traditional economic and political models and contemporary issues within the current social, political and economic context. It enables readers to see the political and judicial forces at work in shaping school finance policy. It also provides the reader with tools drawn from economics to analyze the impacts of those policies in terms of equity, adequacy, efficiency, and liberty.Readers examine the financial implications of systemic reform, including centralized goal setting and accountability via standards, curricula and testing; decentralized reforms via school-site decision making; and family choice of schooling through charter schools and vouchers for low-income families.School finance experts, political analysts, school administrators.

Table of Contents

Preface v
PART I ESTABLISHING A CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY 1(62)
Financing Schools to Achieve High Standards for All: A Global Shift in Priorities
3(34)
Education Decision Making in a Mixed Economy
37(26)
PART II ACQUIRING RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS 63(110)
Principles of Taxation
65(14)
Revenue Sources for Federal and State Governments
79(27)
The Property Tax in Support of Schools
106(31)
Expanding School Resources Through User Fees, Cash Flow Management, Capital Outlay, Partnerships, and Volunteers
137(36)
PART III ALLOCATING STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS FOR SCHOOLS 173(96)
Intergovernmental Transfer Payments and Models for Allocating State Aid
175(31)
Adjusting State Aid Programs for Differences in Student and District Characteristics
206(26)
The Federal Role in Financing Public Education
232(37)
PART IV RETHINKING SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY TO ATTAIN HIGH STANDARDS 269(120)
Judicial Reviews of School Finance Policy
271(26)
Viewing Equity from the Perspective of Adequacy
297(49)
Promoting High Student Achievement Efficiently
346(43)
PART V CREATING INCENTIVES TO FOSTER HIGH PERFORMANCE 389(110)
Linking Financial Rewards and Teacher Compensation to Performance Indicators
391(36)
School-Based Decision Making: Provider Sovereignty
427(35)
Privatization and Family Choice of Schooling: Consumer Sovereignty
462(37)
PART VI CHARTING NEW DIRECTIONS IN SCHOOL FINANCE POLICY 499(20)
Implications of Systemic Reform for School Finance Policy
501(18)
Name Index 519(6)
Subject Index 525

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