TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Stephen J.
AU  - Cox,Millicent
AU  - Lisowski,William
ED  - Rand Corporation.
ED  - National Institute of Education (U.S.)
TI  - The search for equity in school finance: results from five states 
T2  - Rand Corporation / Report
SN  - 0833001159
AV  - LB2825 .C37 1979
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Education
KW  - United States
KW  - Finance
N1  - "March 1979."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 267); Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - Describes outcomes of school finance reform in California, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, and New Mexico.  Spending for education rose impressively in these states, but reform did little to equalize the distributions of revenues or instructional expenditures.  Local property taxes for education declined in all the states but Michigan and became significantly more equal among school districts.  Reform weakened the link between districts' revenues and their communities' property tax bases and, in most cases, their income levels. Reform generally had little effect on the distribution of revenues among district types.  Reform did little to equalize districts' spending outcomes and opportunities probably because of the simultaneous pursuit of diverse and often conflicting objectives, and the add-ons and adjustments that states made to their basic finance plans, usually with disequalizing effects
UR  - http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2348/
ER  -