Description
Book SynopsisPolitical Economy of Public Education Finance takes a unique approach in examining distribution of public education spending across urban school districts in the USA. It provides a thorough and rigorous quantitative examination of the joint roles of school choice and political institutions in inequity in school district spending in the USA. This book additionally provides conceptual and empirical treatment to a topic within the vast school choice scholarship that has been studied the least so far: competition among school districts in the urban regional market. The author further offers insight into the role of political institutions in ensuring equity in public school spending. These institutions provide critical leadership in managing inter-school district competition in the regional context. Since equity is in school finance is the outcome of interest in this book, it includes necessary and sufficient attention to the topic too.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Political Economy of Public Education Finance: Equity, Political Institutions, and Inter-School District Competition
Chapter 1: Funding Inequity in Public Education: A Chronicle of the Debates
Chapter 2: Government’s Role in Addressing Funding Disparities
Chapter 3: The Ubiquitous School Choice in Public Education and Local Political Leadership in the USA
Chapter 4: A Theoretical Consideration of How School Choice and Political Institutions Affect Funding Inequity
Chapter 5: Empirical Examination of How School Choice and Political Institution Affect Funding Inequity
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Policy Implications
