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| Autor/inn/en | Berry, Christopher; Wysong, Charles |
|---|---|
| Titel | School-Finance Reform in Red and Blue |
| Quelle | In: Education Next, 10 (2010) 3, S.62-68 (7 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1539-9664 |
| Schlagwörter | Finance Reform; Educational Finance; School Districts; Court Litigation; Funding Formulas; Politics of Education; Political Influences; Political Affiliation; State Surveys; Resource Allocation; Program Effectiveness; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis |
| Abstract | While school-finance lawsuits have attracted significant attention in the legal community and generated numerous state-specific case studies, nationwide analyses of the effects of school-finance judgments (SFJs) have been relatively few. This small pool of studies has produced some common conclusions, namely, that such judgments reduce funding inequality between districts by increasing spending in the poorest districts and that they do so by transferring responsibility for education funding from local to state governments. Some questions remain unanswered, however, such as why SFJs have substantially different effects in different states. With a political process in mind, the authors decided to investigate how politics might influence the way an SFJ alters a state's school-finance system. They compared changes in funding in school districts where the state's school-finance system has been ruled unconstitutional in a court challenge to funding changes in comparable districts in states where no SFJ has been issued. They found that court-ordered finance reform alters district funding levels under each type of partisan regime. On balance, Democratic control results in across-the-board increases in state funding to local school districts, while Republican and divided-government regimes tend to produce funding increases targeted to poorer districts. SFJs in all three types of political environments lead to a shift in funding responsibility from local to state governments, although to differing degrees. What the authors' study shows is one of the many possible ways that politics can influence the implementation of court-ordered school-finance reform. (Contains 1 figure and 1 table.) (ERIC). |
| Anmerkungen | Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://educationnext.org/journal/ |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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