Equitable Funding
Learn more about efforts to manage school funding to ensure fair allocations of resources
Education Funding
School Finance: Slowly, the Burden Shifts to the States
In 1900, when the town of Stow in eastern Massachusetts was paying Josephine Newhall the less-than-princely sum of $323 to teach three grades for one semester, the townspeople more than likely picked up the tab.
Education
Private Funding Raises Questions Of Equity
The idea had such an appealing, '90s ring to it: Rather than wait for their school board to pay for a new high school auditorium, residents of Bowie, Md., would rally together and raise the money themselves. After all, the proposed auditorium had languished on the list of capital
Education
Local Fund-Raising Prompts Larger Questions About Equity
The idea had such an appealing, '90s ring to it: Rather than wait for their school board to pay for a new high school auditorium, residents of Bowie, Md., would rally together and raise the money themselves.
Education
2 N.J. Panels Diverge on Funding-Equity Solution
A pair of commissions charged with finding a solution to New Jersey's protracted problem of inequitable school funding appeared last week to have clouded the issue by recommending dramatically different approaches.
Education
Suit Claims N.J. Reform Law Will Not Fund Schools Equitably
The lawyer whose court chal lenge led to the overturning of New Jersey's education-funding system in 1990 has filed suit against the subsequent finance- reform measure approved by the legislature last summer and amended last March. $
Education
House Panel Urged To Boost Funding for Equity Program
Advocates of equal rights for women in education urged a House subcommittee last week to substantially increase funding for the $6-million Women's Educational Equity Act.