School Finance 101
Bruce Baker's blog School Finance 101 manages to hit the all-too-rare sweet spot between dense academic analysis and facile punditry. Baker, an associate professor at Rutgers University, brings a forceful, engaging style and matches it with hard numbers that provide just enough information.
To give you a taste of the tone and content of his blog, consider this opening paragraph from a recent post on funding equity:
I've heard it over and over again from reformy pundits. Funding equity? Been there done that. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference. It's all about teacher quality! (which of course has little or nothing to do with funding equity?). The bottom line is that equitable and adequate financing of schools is a NECESSARY UNDERLYING
