Public school financing in the United States is a big business; it involved over $300 billion,
47 million children, and nearly 5 million teachers, administrators, and staff in 1999. School …

Neither of us have ever taught or worked in a K–12 school or school district. Therefore, one
might reasonably ask, why should anyone want to read our book on how best to reform …

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 …

State policymakers wrestle with long-standing questions and concerns about how to best
provide additional fiscal support to rural school districts to ensure their students have access …

HORNE v. FLORES 129 S.Ct. 2579 (2009) 557 US 433 Thomas C. HORNE, Superintendent,
Arizona Public Instruction, Petitioner, v. Miriam FLORES et al. Speaker of the Arizona …

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 …

Given the role of the state as the primary governing level tasked with US public education,
combined with the rapid rise in the proportion of students who are identified as English …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of full accrual accounting on
the Italian public universities and, in this context, how some technical-accounting problems …

This article makes the case that cost functions are the best available methodology for
ensuring consistency between a state's educational accountability system and its education …