State aid equalization arrangements fail to alleviate discrimination against lower socioeconomic status children, and merely reinforce the unequal delivery of school services. (RA)

The error of school finance reform has been to tie educational equity and efficiency considerations to equalization of the local tax base. An alternative strategy would center on the cost and quality of each district's program. (Author/IRT)

Equity in community college finance can be considered in terms of equity among either community colleges, their students, or all public postsecondary institutions. Within each of these, one can examine equity to either providers or recipients of funding. Fragmentary evidence allows no conclusions yet in this area. (Author/RW)

Asserts that spending variation cannot be overcome at the state level, examines factors that need to be considered in the apportionment of educational need and effort, and presents formulas that could be used at the federal level to mitigate differences in educational spending that now exist. (Author)