Special education funding reform: A review of impact studies

Australasian Journal of Special Education

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-35

  Sigafoos, Jeff ^a   Moore, Dennis ^b   Brown, Don ^a   Green, Vanessa A ^a   O'Reilly, Mark F ^c   Lancioni, Giulio E ^d  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categorybased funding; Funding models; Special education; Voucher programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957367697     PISSN: 10300112     EISSN: 18336914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/ajse.34.1.17     Document Type: Article

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