Politicians, Judges, and City Schools: Reforming School Finance in New York: Reforming School Finance in New York

by Joel S. Berke, Margaret E. Goertz, Richard J. Coley

During the 1970s, a nationwide school finance reform movement--fueled by litigation challenging the constitutionality of state education funding laws--brought significant changes to the way many states finance their public elementary and secondary school systems. School finance reform poses difficult philosophical questions: what is the meaning of equality in educational opportunity and of equity in the distribution of tax burdens? But it also involves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871541084
• ISBN13: 9780871541086
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 303 Pages