A 50-state strategy to achieve school finance adequacy

Educational Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 628-654

  Odden, Allan R ^a   Picus, Lawrence O ^b   Goetz, Michael E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adequacy; Economics of education; School finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953855769     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904809335107     Document Type: Article

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