Adequacy, Accountability, and the Future of Public Education Funding
This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and conferences that have focused on the issue of public education reform, it is reasonable to ask whether the world needs still another
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ADEQUACY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING
By
DENNIS PATRICK LEYDEN The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Springer
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CLP. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 0-387-23360-1
e-ISBN 0-387-23361-X
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Dedication
To the memory of my belovedfather Dennis Roger Leyden (1933-2000)
Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
A General Theory of Intergovernmental Grants
15
Theory of Public Education Funding with Court Intervention
43
Assessing the Empirical Validity of the Theory
79
A Legislative and Legal History of Public Education Funding
109
The Future of Public Education Funding
153
Conclusion
197
Acknowledgments
201
References
203
Index
217
Preface
This book is about public education reform and the future of pubHc education funding. Given the many articles, books, and conferences that have focused on the issue of public education reform, it is reasonable to ask whether the world needs still another volume on this subject. In my defense, I would argue that, although there is a large literature on public education reform, there is precious little that tries to sketch the big picture. Too often, both in research and in practice, it is easy to lose sight of the forest, for all the focus on the individual trees. While such detailed analysis is of critical value, that value derives both from its specificity and from its ability to fit into a larger, coherent whole. Unfortunately, our understanding of the public education process is still incomplete and disconnected, particularly with regard to the connections between research, policy, and practice. This book is an attempt to step back for a moment to get one's bearings before jumping headlong back into the forest. It is my hope that this book will be of value to a wide variety of readers researchers in departments of economics and schools of education, policy makers at all levels, and, of course, the practitioners slogging away in the trenches. Unfortunately, the various readers often speak quite differ
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