School finance lessons set to music, 1970s Saturday-morning civics style. Every song comes with receipts: each one links to a post with the data, the sources and the full lyrics. Newest songs first.
Money Matters (The Receipts Rag)
From the misread Coleman Report to sixty years of causal evidence: why money matters for schools.
No More Hacks!
Seventeen years, some thirty critiques, and the same Edunomics graphs in Connecticut.
Why Cost Matters (A School Finance Blues)
Progressiveness and comparability measures make underfunded districts look fine. Measured against what outcomes actually cost, they’re not. A Chicago blues.
Fundin’ Junction
America’s best and worst states for education: two trains, one junction.
¿Dónde Está la Plata?
A street party on Calle Ocho for Florida’s public schools.
Wastin’ Away in Charter-Voucherville
From the beach at Crandon Park: a state that stopped paying its share, a charter company store, and vouchers for kids already in private school.
Raise the Bottom!
Project 2027 to Project 2029: a letter to the new Congress.
Diggin’ Texas Outta That Hole
Texas once led the nation on school funding. How far it has fallen, and how to climb back out.
Read the letter to Governor Hinojosa →
Below the Line (Philly’s Song)
Philadelphia’s school funding crisis isn’t a sitcom: adequacy gaps, fewer teachers, flatter pay.
Challenge Accepted
A Connecticut school finance sing-along: how the state became the poster child for educational inequality.
