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Baker, Bruce D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
This article applies the education cost function methodology in order to estimate additional costs associated with black student concentration and with alternative, race-neutral measures of urban poverty. Recent research highlights the continued importance of the role of race in educational outcomes, and how the intersection of peer group effects…
Descriptors: Costs, Computation, Educational Finance, School Districts
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Baker, Bruce D.; Imber, Michael – Journal of Education Finance, 1999
"Mock v. Kansas" (1991) determined that the state legislature is obligated to fund its schools so that each child receives an equal educational opportunity. Two major sources of funding variations (the local option budget and higher weightings for rural students) represent unjustified disparities based on politics (and spending) as…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Baker, Bruce D. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2009
This study explores within-district fiscal resource allocation across elementary schools in Texas and Ohio large city school districts and in their surrounding metropolitan areas. Specifically, I ask whether districts widely reported as achieving greater resource equity through adoption of Weighted Student Funding (WSF) have in fact done so. I…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Educational Equity (Finance), Costs
Baker, Bruce D.; Green, Preston C., III – Journal of Education Finance, 2009
The goal of this study is to apply a conventional education cost-function approach for estimating the sensitivity of cost models and predicted education costs to the inclusion of school district level racial composition variables and further to test whether race neutral alternatives sufficiently capture the additional costs associated with school…
Descriptors: African American Students, State Aid, Outcomes of Education, Racial Composition
Baker, Bruce D.; Libby, Ken; Wiley, Kathryn – Education Finance and Policy, 2015
This article explores whether two popular policy initiatives are compatible or conflicting strategies for enhancing educational equality in diverse large urban centers. These two initiatives are (1) charter school expansion and (2) improvement of resource equity across urban public school systems through policies often referred to as weighted…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Areas, Urban Schools, Educational Resources