There are those in the ed reform world who would tell us that existing public schools and districts are simply inefficient in their use of existing funding. That all schools and districts have en...
First, a bit of review: Goals of state school finance systems The goal of state school finance systems is to provide all children, regardless of where they live or attend school, equal opportunit...
Bruce D. Baker, Rutgers University PDF Version: Purpose of state school finance formulas The goal of modern state school finance formulas is to ensure that schools and districts throughout a stat...
https://schoolfinance101.com/2022/04/12/fixing-the-vermont-school-finance-mess/
Below is an excerpt from my 2018 book Educational Inequality and School Finance . In many ways, I think this one passage is among the most important in the entire book. Below, I’ve bolded a few...
Many of us are frequently bombarded with claims that district schools have a huge revenue and spending advantage over charter schools, and those claims are almost always cited to the same series ...
School finance researchers have been evaluating and comparing district- and school-level expenditures for decades, drawing largely on regression-based approaches which account for differences in ...
There are days when I’m perplexed at how far we have NOT come in understanding (and conveying in policy circles) why we include measures of poverty and other student needs, along with a variety...
Charter schooling is at a critical juncture and the future of charter schooling across US states can take either of two vastly different paths. On the one hand, charter schooling could become inc...
https://schoolfinance101.com/2021/07/16/charter-schooling-in-the-post-espinoza-fulton-era/
On June 30th 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that if a state has a program of providing public financing for private entities to provide educational services, that program cannot exclude ...
https://schoolfinance101.com/2021/06/19/time-to-tax-the-churches/
Mark Weber, Matt Di Carlo and I have a new report, with data and visualizations available over at schoolfinancedata.org. For that project, we take advantage of two major data sources to estimate ...
https://schoolfinance101.com/2021/03/30/the-adequacy-of-school-district-spending-in-the-u-s/