Who plays? Who pays?: education finance policy that supplants tax burdens along lines of race and class

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 274-299

  Henricks, Kasey ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

education finance policy; institutional discrimination; lotteries; race and class inequalities

Indexed keywords

CLASS; EDUCATION POLICY; FINANCIAL PROVISION; RACE; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACIAL IDENTITY; RACIAL SEGREGATION;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84952718846     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2013.868343     Document Type: Article

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