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Product Description: The school finance debate has profoundly shaped the educational reform landscape over the past four decades. Most conspicuously, judges level billion dollar decrees based on scant and conflicting findings. This book sought to explore whether school funding practices satisfy the equity and adequacy standards delineated by policymakers and judges, and demanded by the broader public...read more

Al Ramirez writes on the subject of how the public schools in the United States are financed and how other funds are raised for educational programs in elementary and secondary schools. A context for public school finance is provided throughout the volume by grounding each topic in historical, policy, political, and common practice, so the work spans both the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject matter. The text is written primarily for graduate students in programs for education leadership, administration, policy studies, public administration, public finance and public accounting. The content will also serve as a resource for practitioners and education policy leaders, e.g., school board members, foundation program officers, legislators, and policy analysts at the local, state and national levels.Each chapter is structured so as to enhance the book’s value to pre-service students preparing for entry-level school administration positions as well as candidates for advanced degrees who need more research based theoretical content on school finance. The author recognizes that each state has its own unique funding approach and guides readers to state resources that supplement the books content.

Product Description: Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between public school funding and educational outcomes. In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail...read more

Simultaneous pressures to reduce costs and increase student achievement have never been greater than they are today. Not only is cost-cutting essential in this era of tightened resources, argue Hess and Osberg, but eliminating inefficient spending is critical for freeing up resources to drive school reform.Stretching the School Dollar book brings together a dynamic group of authors—scholars, consultants, journalists, and entrepreneurs—who offer fresh insights into an issue no school or district can afford to ignore.Stretching the School Dollar is a volume in the Educational Innovations series.

Product Description: Political insider Christopher Cross has updated his critically acclaimed book to reflect recent education policy developments, including the impact of the Obama administration and ''Race to the Top'' as well as the controversy over NCLB's reauthorization...read more

Product Description: Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers...read more

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Product Description: The expert contributors to this volume assess recent court actions in school adequacy lawsuits and their impact on student outcomes. They show that simply throwing more resources at the problem has not brought about a solution and call for changes centered around accountability, incentives, and more informed parents and policymakers...read more

Product Description: I had an unexpected reaction to your new book Two Americas, Two Educations. I kept tearing up . . . --Holly Palance, Distinction Magazine Our educational system badly needs some bold thinking. Paul Cummins vision of what American education could be is imaginative and inspiring...read more

School principals, superintendents, and other administrative personnel must have a solid understanding of the general finance and appropriation structure of federal, state, and local government as well as the ability to formulate and manage school budgets. With the guidance of this new text, educational leadership candidates preparing for such roles will learn the realities of school finance policy, issues, and applications. By providing critical analysis and by including unique chapters on misconceptions about school finance, demographic issues, spending and student achievement, and future trends, authors William Owings and Leslie Kaplan exceed the coverage of these topics as found in other texts.

Product Description: This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and conferences that have focused on the issue of public education reform, it is reasonable to ask whether the world needs still another volume on this subject...read more

Product Description: With guidance from America's most-experienced foundation development consultants, this book provides the know-how and tools K-12 schools and districts need to build the types of foundations colleges and universities use so successfully to raise money and quality standards. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the impact of state activism on local school autonomy in terms of both financial resources and policy initiatives. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text examines both the specifics of school finance policy and the impact of broad economic and political forces on school finance. Evaluates the effectiveness of contemporary policies -- linking changes in funding policy to changes in the priorities given to widely held social values...read more

Product Description: Changes in ethnic, racial, geographic and economic diversity of school children have enormous political and social implications for educational policy, particularly school finance policy and practice. Contributors to this volume outline demographic trends, focus on minority and other special student populations and relate their findings to policies for financing schools, building facilities and taxation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)