Reports & Consulting Projects

School Finance Indicators Database & Related Projects

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Effects of Cutting Federal Aid

• Summary

Does Money Matter in Education?

• Project Site
• Main Report

The Source Code: Revenue Composition and the Equity, Adequacy and Stability of K-12 School Spending

• Project Site

Ensuring Adequate Education For All: A New Federal Foundation Aid Formula

• Project Site

• • Full report
  • One-page fact sheet
  • Executive summary
  • Online data visualization

The Housing Discrimination Toolkit & Effects on School Funding Disparities

• Full report 
  • Executive summary
  • Webinar
  • Case study (metro area) sections
    • Baltimore
    • Bay Area
    • Birmingham
    • Hartford
    • Kansas City
    • San Antonio
    • Twin Cities

School Finance Indicators & Related Sites/Research

• School Funding Adequacy Visualizations
• Research Brief & Data
• School Finance Indicators Data
• Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps

With American Institutes for Research

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U.S. State K-12 Education Funding & Cost Analyses

• New York (2025)

  • Equity Analysis Report, October 2024

  • Student Outcomes and Student Needs Report, October 2024

  • Using Cost Modeling to Inform School Funding Policies Report, November 2024

  • Review of the Rockefeller Report, December 2024

  • Equity Issues in Raising Revenue Report, January 2025

  • Review of the 2025-26 Executive Budget Projections, February 2025

• Oregon (2025)
  • Project Site
  • Cost Analysis Report
• Colorado (2025)
  • Description
  • Report
    • Appendix
• Ohio (2025)
• Delaware (2023)
  • Executive Summary
• New Hampshire (2020)
  • Main Report
  • Background Briefs
    • Costing Out an Adequate Education – A Primer
    • Evaluating State School Finance Systems – An Introduction
    • Using Cost Modeling to Inform Education Funding Formulas
    • Setting Outcome Goals and Standards – From a Formal to Functional Definition of Adequacy
    • State Finance Reform Vignette – Kansas
    • Providing Adequate Funding Through Equitable Taxation – An Introduction
    • State Finance Reform Vignette – New Jersey
    • State Finance Reform Vignette – Vermont
    • State Funding Formulas – A National Review 
• Vermont (2018)
• Maryland (2017)

Community College Cost Projects

• An Examination of the costs of California Community Colleges
• An Examination of the Costs of Texas Community Colleges
• With The Century Foundation (Link to National Press Club Event)
• Estimating the Real Cost of Community College

Other State Projects

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NEW in 2025

• Financing Florida’s Public Schools
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Press Release

New York State – Small City School Districts

• Slide Deck
• Report (Fall 2025)
• Press Release

New Jersey

• Technical Report (Cost Analysis)
• Overview
• Press Release

California Facilities Funding

New Jersey (with Mark Weber & New Jersey Policy Perspectives

• Reforming School Funding in New Jersey: Equity For Taxpayers, Excellence For Students (2024)

• Unlocking Academic Success: Revitalizing New Jersey’s School Funding Formula for Student Achievement (2023)

• New Jersey School Funding: The Higher the Goals, the Higher the Costs (2022)

• Separate and Unequal: Racial and Ethnic Segregation and the Case for School Funding Reparations in New Jersey (2021)

• School Funding in New Jersey: A Fair Future for All (2020)

Other States

• Missouri (2023)
• Tennessee (Critique of TISA)
• New York (on behalf of NY State Small City School Districts)
• New York 2025 (on behalf of Small City School Districts)

A Few Old, Hard to Find &/or Out of Print Items

• Private Management of Public Schools in Baltimore (1996) eai
• Resource Allocation Study
• History of the Rising State Role in Kansas and How it Led to Embedded Inequities Rising State Role in Kansas-R2_formatted
• CHPT1.Micropolitan Schooling
• CHPT2.Micropolitan Schooling
• CHPT3.Micropolitan Schooling