Making money matter : financing America's school
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Making money matter : financing America's school
National Academy Press, c1999
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  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education. As the nation enters the 21st century, it faces a major challenge: how best to tie this financial investment to the goal of high levels of achievement for all students. In addition, policymakers want assurance that education dollars are being raised and used in the most efficient and effective possible ways. The book covers such topics as:
Legal and legislative efforts to reduce spending and achievement gaps.
The shift from "equity" to "adequacy" as a new standard for determining fairness in education spending.
The debate and the evidence over the productivity of American schools.
Strategies for using school finance in support of broader reforms aimed at raising student achievement.
This book contains a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of financing public schools by federal, state, and local governments in the United States. It distills the best available knowledge about the fairness and productivity of expenditures on education and assesses options for changing the finance system.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
2 Setting the Stage
3 Equity I-Spending on Schools
4 Equity II-The Adequacy of Education
5 Improving the Productivity of Schools
6 Achieving Goal 1: Promoting Higher Achievment in a Cost-Efficient
Way
7 Achieving Goal 2: Breaking the Nexus
8 Achieving Goal 3: Raising Revenue Fairly and Efficiently
9 Conclusion
References
Appendix A: Data Needs
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Index
Table of Contents
- 1 Front Matter
- 2 Executive Summary
- 3 1 Introduction
- 4 2 Setting the Stage
- 5 3 Equity I-Spending on Schools
- 6 4 Equity II-The Adequacy of Education
- 7 5 Improving the Productivity of Schools
- 8 6 Achieving Goal 1: Promoting Higher Achievment in a Cost-Efficient Way
- 9 7 Achieving Goal 2: Breaking the Nexus
- 10 8 Achieving Goal 3: Raising Revenue Fairly and Efficiently
- 11 9 Conclusion
- 12 References
- 13 Appendix A: Data Needs
- 14 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
- 15 Index
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