Helping children left behind: state aid and the pursuit of educational equity

I. GENERAL ANALYSIS OF STATE AID REFORM

State aid and the pursuit of educational equity: an overview / John Yinger

Financing a constitutional education: views from the bench / Anna Lukemeyer

Funding and accountability: some conceptual and technical issues in state aid reform / David N. Figlio

Prospects for achieving equity or adequacy in education: the limits of state aid in general equilibrium / Thomas J. Nechyba

II. ANALYSIS OF STATE AID REFORMS IN INDIVIDUAL STATES

The impacts of school finance reform in Kansas: equity is in the eye of the beholder / William Duncombe, Jocelyn M. Johnston

A decade of reform: the impact of school reform in Kentucky / Ann E. Flanagan, Sheila E. Murray

School finance reform in Michigan: evaluating proposal A / Julie Berry Cullen, Susanna Loeb

School finance reform in Texas: a never-ending story? / Jennifer Imazeki, Andrew Reschovsky

School finance reform and school quality: lessons from Vermont / Thomas Downes

APPENDIXES:

A. A guide to state court decisions on education finance / Yao Huang, Anna Lukemeyer, John Yinger

B. A guide to state operating aid programs for elementary and secondary education / Yao Huang

C. A guide to state building aid formulas for elementary and secondary education / Wen Wang.