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Download full textAlex Spurrier; Bonnie O'Keefe; Jennifer O'Neal Schiess – Bellwether, 2023
Many recent critical reforms in state school finance systems have been catalyzed by the courthouse, not the statehouse. Advocates for equity-focused school finance reforms often consider legal action as the best path to significant policy changes. This brief discusses state-level lawsuits on adequacy and equity grounds and their outcomes.
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
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Direct linkRose, Heather – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
California state-level policies are responsible for allocating nearly 80 percent of the revenue received by its K-12 school districts. In 2013-14, the state implemented the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which changed the allocation formula from one based primarily on equal revenue per pupil to an equity-focused allocation based primarily…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Income, Funding Formulas, Elementary Secondary Education
Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
Funding for California's schools has reached record-high levels, although the pandemic has exacerbated longstanding inequities in student outcomes. As policymakers grapple with questions around how much to fund schools and how that funding should be distributed, existing research can provide insights into where and how to use additional funds to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Barton, Stephanie – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
With rising state and local revenues--and significant one-time federal funds in 2020-21 and 2021-22--California policymakers now have greater capacity to invest in public schools. At the same time, longstanding racial and income disparities motivate calls to provide funding more efficiently and equitably. This policy brief is adapted from Julien…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Equal Education
Rothstein, Jesse; Whitmore Schanzenbach, Diane – Grantee Submission, 2022
Card and Krueger (1992a,b) used labor market outcomes to study the productivity of school spending. Following their lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Educational Change, High School Graduates, College Attendance
Hill, Sarah A.; Kiewiet, Roderick; Arsneault, Shelly – Journal of Education Finance, 2021
In California, a half century after the landmark "Serrano v. Priest" decision overturning the state's public school finance system because of the inequality between the state's school districts, a significant amount of wealth-based inequality in per-pupil expenditures continues to exist. One of the sources of this inequality is the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Equal Education, Court Litigation, Educational Finance
