Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that ref

The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education. As the nation enters the 21st century, it faces a major challe

During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement—fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws—brought

This report reviews the experiences of selected states that had recently reformed their school finance systems to make them more equitable. The reforms to the s