Searching for a Fiscal Capacity Model Why No Other State Is Comparable to Tennessee
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WHY NO OTHER STATE IS COMPARABLE TO TENNESSEE by Harry A. Green and Stan Chervin TACIR staff renewed the search for an alternative model for equalizing education funding in response to a request from Governor Bredesen’s Task Force on Teacher Pay by surveying information about models in other states. Not only would the information be good background, but it was reasonable to think that there were other states with local governments that operated schools and were fiscally similar to those in Tennessee with respect to how they funded education.
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