On School Funding Fairness
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