Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools

Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools
ISBN-10
0309065283
ISBN-13
9780309065283
Category
Education
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
1999-12-30
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Board on Behavioral

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.

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