School finance and courts: Does reform matter, and how can we tell?

Teachers College Record

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2374-2414

  Baker, Bruce ^a   Welner, Kevin ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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