School Finance Resources
What is the impact of money on student outcomes? How do state finance systems operate, and which systems are proving to be most effective in providing quality school funding for all students?
This page contains resources on school finance produced by the Learning Policy Institute and other research organizations and leading school finance researchers. Additional content will be added as it is published, including a series of reports on school finance currently being developed by the Learning Policy Institute.
Learning Policy Institute Resources
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Money and Freedom: The Impact of California’s School Finance Reform
Rucker Johnson and Sean Tanner
February 2018
How Money Matters for Schools
Bruce Baker
December 2017
What's the Cost of Teacher Turnover?
September 2017
School Funding: Deep Disparities Persist 50 Years After Kerner
David Sciarra
May 2018
Essential Building Blocks for State School Finance Systems and Promising State Practices
David Hinojosa
December 2018
The California Way: The Golden State’s Quest to Build an Equitable and Excellent Education System
Roberta C. Furger, Laura E. Hernández, and Linda Darling-Hammond
February 2019
Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance Educational Equity
John Brittain, Larkin Willis, and Peter W. Cookson, Jr.
February 2019
Investing for Student Success: Lessons from State School Finance Reforms
Linda Darling-Hammond
April 2019
Resources from Other Organizations
What is Resource Equity?
Education Resource Strategies
Jonathan Travers
2018
A Quick Glance at School Finance: A 50 State Survey of School Finance Policies
University of Nevada
Deborah A. Verstegen
2018
A Punishing Decade for School Funding
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Michael Leachman, Kathleen Masterson, and Eric Figueroa
November 2017
School Funding: Do Poor Kids Get Their Fair Share?
Urban Institute
Matthew Chingos and Kristin Blagg
May 2017
School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement
National Bureau of Economic Research
Julien Lafortune, Jesse Rothstein and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
July 2016
50-State Review: Constitutional Obligations for Public Education
Education Commission of the States
Emily Parker
2016
Revenues for public elementary and secondary schools, by source of funds
National Center for Education Statistics
Selected years, 1919-20 through 2013-14