On School Funding Fairness � School Finance 101

On School Funding Fairness � School Finance 101

On School Funding Fairness

by schoolfinance101

I’ve been toying around for a while on this blog with different ways to compare state school finance systems. This new website presents a summary of much of that playing:

http://www.schoolfundingfairness.org/index.htm

After much discussion and debate, we landed on the following four indicators.

The Fairness Measures
All 50 states are evaluated on the basis of four separate, but interrelated, fairness measures:

• Funding Level: Using figures adjusted to account for a variety of interstate differences, this