This article systematically reviews the cost study literature as it relates to the treatment of
English language learners (ELLs). Despite the substantial number of costing out studies that …

For over thirty years, Texas courts have been challenging the state's legislature to develop
fairer and more equitable ways to finance public education within the state. On a more or …

This paper provides a guide to statistically based methods for estimating the extra costs of
educating disadvantaged students, shows how these methods are related, and compares …

The evaluation of education cost differentials across school districts has been an important
topic in education fi nance research for decades (Fowler and Monk, 2001). Interest in this …

Throughout the Rehnquist Court's so-called federalism revolution, as the Court cut back on
federal power under Article I and the Civil War Amendments, many commentators asserted …

Transforming education into an evidence-based field depends in no small part on a strong
base of scientific knowledge to inform educational policy and practice. Advancing Scientific …

This article proposes a general conception of educational a lengthy history of economic
theory and emerging empirical conception. I review empirical methods for measuring ed …

Over the past 35 years, researchers have devoted signifi cant effort to developing ways to
measure two important goals of state school fi nance systems: the promotion of equity and …

Econometric cost functions have begun to appear in education adequacy cases with greater
frequency. Cost functions are superficially attractive because they give the impression of …

Charter schools can influence a school district's costs by reducing economies of scale and
by changing the share of high cost students a district serves, but might also increase the …