Developments in School Finance, 1996

Developments in School Finance, 1996 consists of nine papers by presenters from the July 1996 NCES State Data Conference. The presenters sought to deal with the perplexing persistence of inequity, not only in expenditures at the school district level, but also at the school level, and in student access to services, programs, and course offerings. Participants also dealt with the question of the efficiency and productivity of public elementary and secondary education.

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• Download, view, and print the paper titled, "Expenditures in Public School Districts: Estimates of Disparities and Analysis of Their Causes".
• Download, view, and print the paper titled, "Teacher Resource Use Within New York State Secondary Schools".
• Download, view, and print the paper titled, "Race, Poverty, and the Student Curriculum, 1975-95: Implications for Public Policy".
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