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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
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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