Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives

by Committee on Education Finance National, National Research Council, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, et al.

Book Overview

Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparities?disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309139325
• ISBN13: 9780309139328
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"