School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee

This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, d...

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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-587262023-11-11T06:19:20Z School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee Spears, Andy General Administration Academic achievement Finance United States Public schools This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, designed to foster equity in funding among the state’s schools. Initiated as a result of lawsuits against the states’ educational systems, both programs dealt with school funding, specifically funding equalization among districts. This Brief examines the environments that precipitated funding reform in each state as well as the outcomes of the reforms on student achievement. The similarities and differences between the approaches in each state are analyzed and compared to related reform programs in other states. An in-depth study of regional educational reform in the United States, this Brief is of use to public policy scholars as well as education policy consultants and other school system or state education leaders. 2015-10-05T07:15:35Z 2015-10-05T07:15:35Z 2015 Book 978-3-319-10317-4 978-3-319-10316-7 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/58726 en application/pdf Springer
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topic General
Administration
Academic achievement
Finance
United States
Public schools
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Administration
Academic achievement
Finance
United States
Public schools
Spears, Andy
School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee
description This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, designed to foster equity in funding among the state’s schools. Initiated as a result of lawsuits against the states’ educational systems, both programs dealt with school funding, specifically funding equalization among districts. This Brief examines the environments that precipitated funding reform in each state as well as the outcomes of the reforms on student achievement. The similarities and differences between the approaches in each state are analyzed and compared to related reform programs in other states. An in-depth study of regional educational reform in the United States, this Brief is of use to public policy scholars as well as education policy consultants and other school system or state education leaders.
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title School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee
title_short School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee
title_full School Funding and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee
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