Overview
School Finance: Achieving High Standards with Equity and Efficiency explores traditional economic and political models and contemporary issues within the current social, political and economic context. It enables readers to see the political and judicial forces at work in shaping school finance policy. It also provides the reader with tools drawn from economics to analyze the impacts of those policies in terms of equity, adequacy, efficiency, and liberty.
Readers examine the financial implications of systemic reform, including centralized goal setting and accountability via standards, curricula and testing; decentralized reforms via school-site decision making; and family choice of schooling through charter schools and vouchers for low-income families.
School finance experts, political analysts, school administrators.
Synopsis
This text utilizes traditional economic and political concepts and models as keys to contemporary social, political, and economic issues in school finance policies and practices. The third edition emphasizes the need to achieve high standards with equity and efficiency and identifies new sources of funds to supplement traditional local, state, and federal monies. For graduate students in school finance and the economics of education, and useful as a reference text for education policy analysts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR