Articles
Baker, B.D., Di Carlo, M., Weber, M. (2023) Incentivizing Equity: A New Way to Distribute Federal Aid and Spur Adequate Funding for All. American Educator, Spring https://www.aft.org/ae/spring2023/baker_dicarlo_weber
Weber, Mark, and Bruce D. Baker. (2023). Does School Funding Matter In a Pandemic? COVID-19 Instructional Models and School Funding Adequacy. (EdWorkingPaper: 23-736). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/406b-hy46
Baker, B.D. (in press) Toward Equitable and Adequate Financing of U.S. Public Schools: Implications for Brazilian Education. FINEDUCA – Revista de Financiamento da Educação
Oberfield, Z., Baker, B.D. (in press) The politics of progressivity: Court-ordered reforms, racial difference, and school finance fairness. American Educational Research Journal
Green, P.C., Baker, B.D., Oluwole, J. (2021) School Finance, Race & Reparations. Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3766279
Kolbe, T., Baker, B.D., Atchison, D., Levin, J. (2021) The Additional Cost of Operating Rural Schools: Evidence from Vermont. AERA Open https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858420988868
Baker, B.D., Weber, M., Srikanth, A. (2021) Informing Federal School Finance Policy with Empirical Evidence: A National Education Cost Model Approach. Journal of Education Finance https://muse.jhu.edu/article/806389/summary
Baker, B.D., Srikanth, A., Cotto, R., & Green III, P.C.(2020). School funding disparities and the plight of Latinx children.Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28(135). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5282
Baker, B.D., Weber, M., Atchison, D. (2020) Weathering the storm: School funding in the COVID-19 era. Phi Delta Kappan https://kappanonline.org/school-funding-covid-19-baker-weber-atchison/
Baker. B.D., Cotto, R. (2020) School Funding’s Latinx Second Cities Problem. Phi Delta Kappan https://kappanonline.org/underfunding-latinx-serving-school-districts-baker-cotto/
Baker, B. D., & Chingos, M. M. (2019). Toward a Rich Data Future for School Finance Research. AERA Open, 5(4), 2332858419887735. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419887735
Reports
Baker, B.D. (2023) Built on a Foundation of Sand: Fixing New York State’s Foundation Aid Formula to Provide Adequate Education to All. New York State Association for Small City School Districts.
Baker, B.D. (2023) School Funding in Missouri. Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
J Levin, BD Baker, J Lee, D Atchison, R Kelchen (2022) An Examination of the Costs of Texas Community Colleges. Regional Education Lab Southwest. Institute for Education Sciences. REL 2023-142. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/rel/regions/southwest/pdf/REL_2023142.pdf
Baker, B.D., Di Carlo, M., Weber, M. (2022) Ensuring Adequate Education Funding for All: A New Federal Foundation Aid Formula. Albert Shanker Institute: https://www.shankerinstitute.org/fedformula
Baker, B.D., Di Carlo, M., Green, P.C. III (2022) Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity. Albert Shanker Institute https://www.shankerinstitute.org/segfunding
Baker, B.D., & Weber, M. (2022) New Jersey School Funding: The Higher the Goals, the Higher the Costs. New Jersey Policy Perspectives. https://www.njpp.org/publications/report/new-jersey-school-funding-the-higher-the-goals-the-higher-the-costs/
Baker, B.D., & Weber, M. (2021) Separate and Unequal: Racial and Ethnic Segregation and the Case for School Funding Reparations in New Jersey. New Jersey Policy Perspectives https://www.njpp.org/publications/report/separate-and-unequal-racial-and-ethnic-segregation-and-the-case-for-school-funding-reparations-in-new-jersey/
Baker, B.D., Di Carlo, M., Weber, M. (2021) The Adequacy of School District Spending in the U.S. Albert Shanker Institute. https://www.schoolfinancedata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/SFID_DCDbrief_Mar2021.pdf
Baker, B.D., & Weber, M. (2020) School Funding in New Jersey: A Fair Future for All. New Jersey Policy Perspective. https://www.njpp.org/publications/report/school-funding-in-new-jersey-a-fair-future-for-all/
Opinion Pieces
Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2021) How reparations can be paid through school finance reform. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-reparations-can-be-paid-through-school-finance-reform-164546
Baker, B.D., Cotto, R., Green, P.C. III (2021) Fixing Connecticut School Finance: The Time is Now. CT Mirror. https://ctmirror.org/category/ct-viewpoints/fixing-connecticut-school-finance-the-time-is-now/
Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2020) Should plaintiffs in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for? How the impacts of a decision on Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue could differ from expectations. Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-should-plaintiffs-in-a-supreme-court-ruling-about-school-choice-be-careful-what-they-wish-for/
Black, D., Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2019) Charter Schools Exploit Lucrative Loophole that Would Be Easy to Close. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/charter-schools-exploit-lucrative-loophole-that-would-be-easy-to-close-111792
Think Tank Reviews
Baker, B.D. (2023). NEPC review: Equal is not good enough: An analysis of school funding across the U.S. and within each state and Balancing act: How states can address local wealth inequity in education finance. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/school-funding
Baker, B.D. (2022). NEPC review: From school aid to student aid: Modernizing
K-12 funding in Michigan. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from
http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/mi-funding
Baker, B.D. (2021). NEPC review: Education Savings Accounts: How ESAs can promote educational freedom for New York families. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/esas
Baker, B.D. (2021). NEPC review: Charter school funding: Support for students wih disabilities. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/funding-disabilities
Baker, B.D. (2021). NEPC review: The effect of constitutional provisions on education policy and outcome. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/constitutional-provisions
Baker, B.D. (2020). NEPC Review: “Unleashing Educational Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Expanded Tax Credit Scholarships.” Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/tax-credits
Baker, B.D. (2020). NEPC Review: “Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms.” Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/charter-research
Baker. B.D. (2019). NEPC Review: “California Charter Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Impact on School Districts.“Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/ca-charters
Baker. B.D. (2018). NEPC Review: “Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong” and “Fixing the Currently Biased State K-12 Education Rankings.“ Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-rankings
Baker, B.D. (2018). NEPC Review: “Student-Centered State Funding: A How-to Guide for State Policymakers” (The Foundation for Excellence in Education, November 2017). Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-student-centered-funding
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