Equity, adequacy, and the evolving state role in education finance

Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 353-375

  Corcoran, Sean P ^a   Evans, William N ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064368113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203788684     Document Type: Chapter

References (71)

1. ACCESS Education Network. (2014). Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/state_by_state.php3.
2. Bahl, R., Sjoquist, D., & Williams, W. L. (1990). School finance reform and impact on property taxes. Proceedings of the Eighty-Th ird Annual Conference on Taxation, 163–171.
3. Baicker, K., & Gordon, N. (2006). Th e effect of state education finance reform on total local resources. Journal of Public Economics, 90, 1519–1535.
4. Baker, B. D., & Welner, K. G. (2011). School finance and courts: Does reform matter, and how can we tell? Teachers College Record, 113 (11), 2374–2414.
5. Benson, C. S., & O’Halloran, K. (1987). Th e economic history of school finance in the United States. Journal of Education Finance, 12, 495–515.
6. Bernat, G. A. (2001). Convergence in state per capita personal income, 1950–99. Survey of Current Business, 81, 36–48.
7. Berne, R., & Stiefel, L. (1984). Th e measurement of equity in school finance: Conceptual, methodological, and empirical dimensions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.
8. Berry, C. (2007). Th e impact of school finance judgments on state fiscal policy. In M. R. West & P. E. Peterson (Eds.), School money trials: Th e legal pursuit of educational adequacy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
9. Briffault, R. (2007). Adding adequacy to equity: Th e evolving legal theory of school finance reform. In M. R. West & P. E. Peterson (Eds.), School money trials: Th e legal pursuit of educational adequacy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
10. Campbell, C. D., & Fischel, W. A. (1996). Preferences for school finance systems: Voters versus judges. National Tax Journal, 49, 1–15.
11. Card, D., & Payne, A. A. (2002). School finance reform, the distribution of school spending, and the distribution of student test scores. Journal of Public Economics, 83, 49–82.
12. Charlet v. Legislature of the State of Louisiana. (1998).
13. Chaudhary, L. (2009). Education inputs, student performance and school finance reform in Michigan. Economics of Education Review, 28 (1), 90–98.
14. Clark, M. A. (2003). Education reform, redistribution, and student achievement: Evidence from the Kentucky Education Reform Act. Unpublished dissertation, Princeton University.
15. Coen-Pirani, D. (2011). Immigration and spending on public education: California, 1970–2000. Journal of Public Economics, 95, 1237–1660.
16. Corcoran, S., & Evans, W. N. (2010). Income inequality, the median voter, and the support for public education (NBER Working Paper No. 16097). Available at www.nber.org/papers/w16097.
17. Corcoran, S., Evans, W. N., Godwin, J., Murray, S. E., & Schwab, R. M. (2004). Th e changing distribution of education finance, 1972 to 1997. In K. M. Neckerman (Ed.), Social inequality. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
18. Courant, P. N., & Loeb, S. (1997). Centralization of school finance in Michigan. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16, 114–136.
19. Cullen, J. B., & Loeb, S. (2004). School finance reform in Michigan: Evaluating Proposal A. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
20. Dadayan, L. (2012). Th e impact of the Great Recession on local property taxes. Albany, NY: Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
21. de Bartolome, C.A.M. (1997). What determines state aid to school districts? A positive model of foundation aid as redistribution. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16, 32–47.
22. Dee, T. S., & Levine, J. (2004). Th e fate of new funding: Evidence from Massachusetts’ education finance reforms. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 26 (3), 199–215.
23. Downes, T. A. (1992). Evaluating the impact of school finance reform on the provision of public education: Th e California case. National Tax Journal, 45, 405.
24. Downes, T. A. (1997). The effect of Serrano v. Priest on the quality of American education: What do we know? What do we need to know? Proceedings of the Eighty-Ninth Annual Conference on Taxation, 1996, 336–342.
25. Downes, T. A. (2004). School finance reform and school quality: Lessons from Vermont. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
26. Downes, T. A., & Figlio, D. N. (1998). School finance reforms, tax limits, and student performance: Do reforms level-up or dumb down? (Mimeograph). Tuft s University.
27. Downes, T. A., & Shah, M. P. (2006). Th e effect of school finance reforms on the level and growth of per-pupil expenditures. Peabody Journal of Education, 81, 1–38.
28. Duncombe, W., & Johnston, J. M. (2004). Th e impacts of school finance reform in Kansas. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
29. Evans, W. N., Murray, S. E., & Schwab, R. M. (1997). Schoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses aft er Serrano. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16, 10–31.
30. Evans, W. N., Murray, S. E., & Schwab, R. M. (1999). Th e impact of court-mandated school finance reform. In H. F. Ladd, R. Chalk, & J. S. Hansen (Eds.), Equity and adequacy in education finance: Issues and perspectives (pp. 72–98). Washington, DC: National Academy.
31. Fernandez, R., & Rogerson, R. (2003). Equity and resources: An analysis of education finance systems. Journal of Political Economy, 111, 858–897.
32. Figlio, D. N. (1997). Did the “tax revolt” reduce school performance? Journal of Public Economics, 65, 245–269.
33. Figlio, D. N., Husted, T. A., & Kenny, L. W. (2004). Political economy of the inequality in school spending. Journal of Urban Economics, 55, 338–349.
34. Fischel, W. A. (1989). Did Serrano cause Proposition 13? National Tax Journal, 42, 465–473.
35. Fischel, W. A. (1996). How Serrano caused Proposition 13, Journal of Law and Politics, 12, 607–645.
36. Flanagan, A. E., & Murray, S. E. (2004). A decade of reform: Th e impact of school reform in Kentucky. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
37. Guryan, J. (2001). Does money matter? Regressiondiscontinuity estimates from education finance reform in Massachusetts (NBER Working Paper No. 8269). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
38. Hanushek, E. A. (2003). Th e failure of input-based schooling policies. Economic Journal, 113, F64–F98.
39. Harris, A. R., Evans, W. N., & Schwab, R. M. (2001). Education spending in an aging America. Journal of Public Economics, 81, 449–472.
40. Howard, R. M., & Roch, C. H. (2001). Policy change and the state courts: Th e case of education finance reform. Justice System Journal, 22, 137–153.
41. Hoxby, C. M. (1998). How much does school spending depend on family income? Th e historical origins of the current school finance dilemma. American Economic Review, 88, 309–314.
42. Hoxby, C. M. (2001). All school finance equalizations are not created equal. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116, 1189–1231.
43. Hoxby, C. M., & Kuziemko, I. (2004). Robin Hood and his not-so-merry plan: Capitalization and the self-destruction of Texas’ school finance equalization plan (NBER Working Paper No. 10722). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
44. Hussar, W. J., & Sonnenberg, W. (2000). Trends in disparities in school district level expenditures per pupil. National Center for Education Statistics report 2000–020. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.
45. Husted, T. A., & Kenny, L. W. (1997). Efficiency in education: Evidence from the states. Proceedings of the Eighty-Ninth Annual Conference on Taxation, 1996, 358–365.
46. Imazeki, J., & Reschovsky, A. (2004). School finance reform in Texas: A never-ending story? In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
47. Kalambokidis, L., & Reschovsky, A. (2005). States’ responses to the budget shortfalls of 2001–2004. Challenge, 48, 76–93.
48. Loeb, S. (2001). Estimating the effects of school finance reform: A framework for a federalist system. Journal of Public Economics, 80, 225–247.
49. Manwaring, R. L., & Sheffrin, S. M. (1997). Litigation, school finance reform, and aggregate educational spending. International Tax and Public Finance, 4, 107–127.
50. Minorini, P. A., & Sugarman, S. D. (1999). School finance litigation in the name of educational equality: Its evolution, impact, and future. In H. F. Ladd, R. Chalk, & J. S. Hansen (Eds.), Equity and adequacy in education finance: Issues and perspectives (pp. 34–71). Washington, DC: National Academy.
51. Moser, M., & Rubenstein, R. (2002). Th e equality of public school district funding in the United States: A national status report. Public Administration Review, 62, 63–72.
52. Murray, S. E, Evans, W. N., & Schwab, R. M. (1998). Education-finance reform and the distribution of education resources. American Economic Review, 88, 789–812.
53. Nechyba, T. (2004). Prospects for achieving equity or adequacy in education: Th e limits of state aid in general equilibrium. In J. Yinger (Ed.), Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
54. Odden, A. R., & Picus, L. O. (2004). School finance: A policy perspective. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
55. Papke, L. E. (2005). Th e effects of spending on test pass rates: Evidence from Michigan. Journal of Public Economics, 89, 821–839.
56. Papke, L. E. (2008). Th e effects of changes in Michigan’s school finance system. Public Finance Review, 36 (4), 456–474.
57. Peltzman, S. (1993). Th e political economy of the decline of American public education. Journal of Law and Economics, 36, 331–370.
58. Picus, L. O. (1991). Cadillacs or Chevrolets? Th e effects of state control on school finance in California. Journal of Education Finance, 17 (1), 33–59.
59. Reschovsky, A. (2004). Th e impact of state government fiscal crises on local governments and schools. State and Local Government Review, 36, 86–102.
60. Roy, J. (2011). Impact of school finance reform on resource equalization and academic performance: Evidence from Michigan. Education Finance and Policy, 6 (2), 137–167.
61. Schwartz, M., & Moskowitz, J. (1988). Fiscal equity in the United States, 1984–88. Washington, DC: Decision Resources.
62. Silva, F., & Sonstelie, J. (1995). Did Serrano cause a decline in school spending? National Tax Journal, 48, 199–215.
63. Sims, D. P. (2011a). Lift ing all boats? Finance litigation, education resources, and student needs in the post-Rose era. Education Finance and Policy, 6 (4), 455–485.
64. Sims, D. P. (2011b). Suing for your supper? Resource allocation, teacher compensation and finance lawsuits. Economics of Education Review, 30 (5), 1034–1044.
65. Sonstelie, J., Brunner, E., & Ardon, K. (2000). For better or worse? School finance reform in California. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.
66. Springer, M. G., Liu, K., & Guthrie, J. W. (2009). Th e impact of education finance litigation reform on resource distribution: A comparison of courtmandated equity and adequacy reforms. Education Economics, 17 (4), 421–444.
67. Streams, M., Butler, J. S., Cowen, J., Fowles, J., & Toma, E. F. (2011). School finance reform: Do equalized expenditures imply equalized teacher salaries? Education Finance and Policy, 6 (4), 508–536.
68. Wilson, K., Lambright, K., & Smeeding, T. M. (2006). School finance, equivalent educational expenditure, and the income distribution: Equal dollars or equal chances for success? Education Finance and Policy, 1 (4), 396–424.
69. Wood, B. D., & Th eobold, N. A. (2003). Political responsiveness and equity in public education finance. Journal of Politics, 65, 718–738.
70. Wyckoff, J. H. (1992). Th e intrastate equality of public primary and secondary education resources in the U.S., 1980–1987. Economics of Education Review, 11, 19–30.
71. Yinger, J. (2004). Helping children left behind: State aid and the pursuit of educational equity. Cambridge, MA: MIT.