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Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Patrick Leyden

    1. The University of North Carolina, Greensboro

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  • Pays particular attention to state legislatures, which are being asked to provide the bulk of public school funding in an atmosphere where there is no consensus on how adequacy should be defined or measured.

  • Of equal interest is Professor Leyden’s in-depth analysis of Connecticut’s completed reform of its educational funding policies.

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-14

  3. A General Theory of Intergovenmental Grants

    Pages 15-42

  4. Theory of Public Education Funding with Court Intervention

    Pages 43-78

  5. Assessing the Empirical Validity of the Theory

    Pages 79-108

  6. A Legislative and Legal History of Public Education Funding

    Pages 109-151

  7. The Future of Public Education Funding

    Pages 153-195

  8. Conclusion

    Pages 197-200

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-224
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This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and conferences that have focused on the issue of public education reform, it is reasonable to ask whether the world needs still another volume on this subject. In my defense, I would argue that, although there is a large literature on public education reform, there is precious little that tries to sketch the big picture. Too often, both in research and in practice, it is easy to lose sight of the forest, for all the focus on the individual trees. While such detailed analysis is of critical value, that value derives both from its specificity and from its ability to fit into a larger, coherent whole. Unfortunately, our understanding of the public education process is still incomplete and disconnected, particularly with regard to the connections between research, policy, and practice. This book is an attempt to step back for a moment to get one's bearings before jumping headlong back into the forest. It is my hope that this book will be of value to a wide variety of reader- researchers in departments of economics and schools of education, policy makers at all levels, and, of course, the practitioners slogging away in the trenches.

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  • The University of North Carolina, Greensboro

    Dennis Patrick Leyden

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