School Funding in Montana

Equity and adequacy in school funding.

Since 1971, most states have been subject to lawsuits seeking to reform their education funding systems. These cases are litigated on the basis of state (not federal) constitutional language and generally seek either greater equity in funding among school districts or a guaranteed level of adequate funding for education. State supreme courts have found the finance systems unconstitutional in 16...

Dual standards of school performance and funding? Empirical searches of school funding adequacy in Kentucky and Maine

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Inequality in children ’ s school readiness and public funding

In the research reported here, we examined these and related questions, exploring both the expansion in preschool attendance and its consequences, especially for disadvantaged children, and the effects of the increased outlays on early childhood education and child care over the 1990s. We drew on enrollment data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the newly available Early Childhood Lo...

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

Good Intentions Captured: School Funding Adequacy and the Courts