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Peer reviewedCantor, Leonard M. – Comparative Education, 1980
Using examples from California, the author analyzes the increasing trend for states to assume a guiding or dominant role over local school districts in important aspects of American education. He considers the main reasons for this trend to be public concern over academic standards and the increasing cost of education. (Editor/SJL)
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Full State Funding
