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School Funding and Student Achievement

Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Andy Spears

    1. President, Spears Strategy, Nashville, USA

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  • Provides a side-by-side comparison of education funding formulas enacted in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1990s
  • Analyses the impact of different reform paths on two demographically and geographically similar states
  • Studies the link between school funding and student achievement and what impact, if any, state funding formulas for schools have on student outcomes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andy Spears
    Pages 1-6

  3. Review of Literature

    • Andy Spears
    Pages 7-33

  4. Methodology

    • Andy Spears
    Pages 35-44

  5. Research Results

    • Andy Spears
    Pages 45-56

  6. Analysis and Conclusions

    • Andy Spears
    Pages 57-67

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 69-78
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This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, designed to foster equity in funding among the state’s schools. Initiated as a result of lawsuits against the states’ educational systems, both programs dealt with school funding, specifically funding equalization among districts. This Brief examines the environments that precipitated funding reform in each state as well as the outcomes of the reforms on student achievement. The similarities and differences between the approaches in each state are analyzed and compared to related reform programs in other states. An in-depth study of regional educational reform in the United States, this Brief is of use to public policy scholars as well as education policy consultants and other school system or state education leaders.

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  • President, Spears Strategy, Nashville, USA

    Andy Spears

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