The Source Code: Revenue Composition and the Equity, Adequacy and Stability of K-12 School Spending
Ensuring Adequate Education For All: A New Federal Foundation Aid Formula
The Housing Discrimination Toolkit & Effects on School Funding Disparities
- Full report (or view in box below)
- Executive summary
- Webinar
- Case study (metro area) sections
Current Large Data Projects
School Finance Indicators Data
with Mark Weber, Ajay Srikanth, Mike Atzbi in collaboration with Matt Di Carlo of the Shanker Institute. Developed with funding from the William T. Grant Foundation. (New: State Reports)
Closing America’s Education Funding Gaps
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- with The Century Foundation
- Sample figures and data: Americas Funding Gaps
- GAPMAP
Community College Cost Project
Recent and Current State Consultancies
New Hampshire Commission on School Funding (with American Institutes for Research)
Report
Briefs
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- 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
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Simulator Modeling Tool
Vermont Legislative Study on School Funding Weighting Factors
Maryland Department of Education: Charter School Commensurate Funding Study
Scholarly Projects & Working Papers
- Political influences on school funding fairness, with Zach Oberfield of Haverford College.
- Understanding geographic influences on education costs? Rural schools, economies of scale and population sparsity in Vermont, with Tammy Kolbe, Drew Atchison and Jesse Levin
- Evaluating the fiscal impact of New Jersey’s Tax and Expenditure Limits on Local Public School Districts, with Pengju Zhang (Rutgers, Newark) & Julia Sass Rubin (Rutgers, New Brunswick)
- Charter Expansion, School Funding and Student Outcomes, with Mark Weber and Ajay Srikanth
- Estimating a National Education Cost Model, with Mark Weber and Ajay Srikanth
- A reparations framework for mitigating racial disparities in school finance, with Preston Green
Books in Progress
- Wheat State Wisdom? Lessons from Kansas in School Finance Reform, under contract with Harvard Education Press Group
- Evaluating and Improving State School Finance Systems: A methodological guidebook, with Drew Atchison, Jesse Levin and Caitlyn Kearns
A Few Old, Hard to Find &/or Out of Print Items
Private Management of Public Schools in Baltimore (1996) eai
History of the Rising State Role in Kansas and How it Led to Embedded Inequities Rising State Role in Kansas-R2_formatted
School Finance 101 