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- Title
A 50-State Strategy to Achieve School Finance Adequacy.
- Authors
Odden, Allan R.; Picus, Lawrence O.; Goetz, Michael E.
- Abstract
This article estimates the costs of school finance adequacy in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. by applying the recommendations from an evidence- based model to the student characteristics of each individual state. Using two different prices, (a) the national average teacher salaries adjusted by a comparable wage index and (b) individual state teacher salaries, the authors estimate per pupil costs of adequacy. Results suggest that in 30 states additional resources are needed to reach the funding level for the evidence-based model. The findings do not make adjustments for diseconomies resulting from large numbers of small schools or districts or other state preferences for educational services that could lead to individual state variations from the authors' findings.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (D.C.); EDUCATIONAL finance; EDUCATION &; economics; TEACHERS' salaries; EVIDENCE-based education; EDUCATIONAL change; STRATEGIC planning; COST estimates; DISECONOMIES of scale
- Publication
Educational Policy, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 4, p628
- ISSN
0895-9048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0895904809335107