School finance: Raising questions for urban schools

Education and Urban Society

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-21

  Reyes, Augustina H ^a,c,d,e   Rodriguez, Gloria M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Houston Independent School District   (United States)

^d Dominican College   (United States)

^e HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization of budgets; Equity in funding; School funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644291702     PISSN: 00131245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013124504268103     Document Type: Review

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