ED438373 UD033342
Title: Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives.
Author(s): Ladd, Helen F., Ed.; Chalk, Rosemary, Ed.; Hansen, Janet S., Ed.
Author Affiliation: National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC.(FGK56081)
Pages: 327
Publication Date: 1999
Sponsoring Agency: Department of Education, Washington, DC. (EDD00001)
Contract No: RF95194001
ISBN: 0-309-06563-1
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC14 Plus Postage.
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Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEJUL2000
In the mid 1990s, the U.S. Congress requested a major study of the U.S. system of elementary and secondary education finance by the National Research Council (NRC). This volume of background papers was prepared in conjunction with one part of the study. It includes eight papers commissioned by the NCR's committee to inform its discussions about equity and adequacy in education finance, two of the issues it was specifically charged to address. The papers are: (1) "Concepts of School Finance Equity: 1970 to the Present" (Robert Berne and Leanna Stiefel); (2) "School Finance Litigation in the Name of Educational Equity: Its Evolution, Impact, and Future" (Paul A. Minorini and Stephen D. Sugarman); (3) "The Impact of Court-Mandated School Finance Reform" (William N. Evans, Sheila E. Murray, and Robert M. Schwab); (4) "Court-Mandated School Finance Reform: What Do the New Dollars Buy?" (Margaret E. Goertz and Gary Natriello); (5) "The Politics of School Finance in the 1990s" (Melissa C. Carr and Susan H. Fuhrman); (6) "Educational Adequacy and the Courts: The Promise and Problems of Moving to a New Paradigm" (Paul A. Minorini and Stephen D. Sugarman); (7) "Enabling 'Adequacy' To Achieve Reality: Translating Adequacy into State School Finance Distribution Arrangements" (James W. Guthrie and Richard Rothstein); and (8) "Performance Standards and Educational Cost Indexes: You Can't Have One without the Other" (William D. Duncombe and John M. Yinger). Each paper contains references. (Contains 29 tables and 4 boxes.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation; *Educational Finance; *Elementary Secondary Education; *Equal Education; Financial Support; Political Influences; Standards; Urban Schools
