School finance reform: Do equalized expenditures imply equalized teacher salaries?

Education Finance and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 508-536

  Streams, Meg ^a   Butler, J S ^b   Cowen, Joshua ^b   Fowles, Jacob ^c   Toma, Eugenia F ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84858147880     PISSN: 15573060     EISSN: 15573079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/EDFP_a_00046     Document Type: Article

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