An Analysis of School Funding at the Student Level

ISBN-13: 9783639150957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Timothy Scully

Opis

Brown v Board removed the notion of separate butequal that had defined who could attend which school by a childs race. In California, Serrano v Priest determined that anareas wealth could not be used as a discriminating factor whenallocating dollars for a childs education, thus equalizing the amount of theState contribution to each child.The Prop. 13 tax revolt removed about 80% of thelocal control from School Districts and School Boards.Where the above actions addressed access and equity,no one had addressed what the cost should be to provide an adequate education. Those clamoring for adequacy are beingjoined by others calling for efficiency in spending. This work gives a detailed look at how each dollarallocated per child is spent. You will see a startling spendingrange between children. This piece does not deal with academic outcomes. Atthe start of this study, the author was looking at production functionmodels and cost-benefit analysis as means of determining ifstudent outcomes where affected by spending. In each case multiiplevariables clouded the effort to apply a business model to an educationsetting. No doubt it can be done.

O autorze

Dr. Scully earned his doctorate at USC in 2004 in Educ. Policy
and Administration
emphasizing school financé. He has taught at Loyola-Marymount
Univ. and USC.
He taught H.S. for 21 years was a principal for 11 yr and was
named California High
School Principal of the year by California and the US Dept. of
Education among many
other awards.