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Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2022
Over the past 10-15 years, there has emerged a growing consensus, supported by high-quality empirical research, that additional funding improves student outcomes (and funding cuts hurt those outcomes), particularly among disadvantaged students. There are, of course, serious and important debates about how education funding should be spent. Yet…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support
Baker, Bruce D.; Sciarra, David G.; Farrie, Danielle – Education Law Center, 2015
While the United States was recovering from the recent economic stress caused by the Great Recession, individual state economies were improving at a slow pace. In 2012, state education budgets came to a crossroads, as most states had exhausted their allocations of federal stimulus dollars. Prior editions of this report noted how many states used…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Financial Support, State Aid
Baker, Bruce D.; Sciarra, David G.; Farrie, Danielle – Education Law Center, 2010
Building a more accurate, reliable and consistent method of analyzing how states fund public education starts with a critical question: What is fair school funding? In this report, "fair" school funding is defined as a state finance system that ensures equal educational opportunity by providing a sufficient level of funding distributed…
Descriptors: Poverty, Family Income, Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities
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