Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Examination of the Federal Role in School Finance
This line of argument, while repeated frequently in many subsequent law suits and within state legislatures, is now understood to be flawed. The flaw is not in the laudable goals behind past and current school finance policy discussions. The debate recognizes problems with both the overall trend in school performance and the inequities that currently exist - and these problems become the motivation for the subsequent calls to action.
The flaw in the traditional school finance debate is that the entire discussion centers on funding and school spending. Spending is (often implicitly) equated to school quality or performance. The difficulty is that, despite the continual increases in the level of spending and declines in the variation of spending across districts that we have observed, the performance problems continue. It also ignores the substantial scientific evidence that shows little relationship between performance and resources employed in schools.
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