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ERIC Number: EJ676082
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity through Student-Based Budgeting.
Miles, Karen Hawley; Ware, Kathleen; Roza, Marguerite
Phi Delta Kappan, v85 n2 p114-19 Oct 2003
When the Cincinnati Public Schools devised a reform strategy for improving student performance, it became clear that the district's traditional budgeting system was inadequate. Traces the district's process of moving to a system of student-based budgeting linking funding equity and flexibility to accountability and excellence. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Funding Formulas, Resource Allocation, School Accounting, School District Spending, Student Needs, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Administrators; Policymakers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Cincinnati Public Schools OH