Courts as catalysts : state supreme courts and public school finance equity /

Despite education being one of the most important, if not the most important, political issues for the American public, access to funding for education is not equal across school districts. Local public schools are generally funded by a combination of state aid and local property taxes, a combinatio...

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Autor principal: Bosworth, Matthew H.
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Acceso en línea:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254816
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Courts and Social Reform 1
  • Chapter 2. Funding American Public Schools 27
  • Chapter 3. Texas: "We Want to Surrender, We Just Don't Know Where To Turn Ourselves In" 59
  • Chapter 4. Kentucky: "The Courts Made Us Do It" 111
  • Chapter 5. North Dakota: "We'll Give You One More Chance" 167
  • Chapter 6. State Supreme Courts and the Different Paths to Public School Finance Equity Reform 207.