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Book SynopsisState school finance formula cause funding inadequacy, allocative inefficiency, and educational resource equity gaps. Legislative and court-ordered remedies have failed to solve the disparities among schools and districts. This book's ground-breaking innovation shows how to shift the public education finance paradigm to fund K-12 public education properly, fully, and equitably by eliminating the duplicative and unnecessary layer of county government nationwide and repurposing those tax dollars while implementing economies of scale to achieve allocative efficiency.
Table of ContentsForeword — Charles J. Russo
Section I: Overview
- Mission — Stephen V. Coffin
- Value Proposition — Stephen V. Coffin
Section II: Constitutional Requirements
- Lest There Be Any Doubt: Constitutional Sovereignty as the Basis for Education Reform in Kentucky — William E. Thro
- State School Funding Formula-based Inequities — Stephen V. Coffin
Section III: Inequities in Human Resources
- Teachers: Adopting a Culturally Grounded Asset-Based Mindset — Corinne Brion
- Culturally Proficient Professional Development — Corinne Brion
- Special Education — Keith Dewey and Stephen V. Coffin
- Resource Inequities among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students — Thomas Barger
Section IV: Inequities in Crucial Services
- Early Childhood Education — Karin Garver
- School-based Healthcare Services — Camille A. Clare and Tanya O. Rogo
- Consumer Education for Attaining Life Goals — Luke Greeley
Section V: Innovation
- Combatting Diseconomies of Scale — Stephen V. Coffin
- Gaining Public Support for Public Funding of Public Education — Stephen V. Coffin
- Achieving Economies of Scale and Building Fiscal Capacity in Large School Districts — Stephen V. Coffin
- K-12 N.A.P.R.Holistic Budgeting Model — Stephen V. Coffin
Section VI: Conclusion
- Rescue Plan — Stephen V. Coffin
- Redlining Education — Stephen V. Coffin
- Achieving Educational Resource Equity — Stephen V. Coffin
