School Finance: Three States' Experiences With Equity in School Funding
HEHS-96-39
Published: Dec 19, 1995. Publicly Released: Dec 19, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the experiences of three states that reformed their school finance systems, focusing on the: (1) reforms made to each school finance system; (2) legal, budgetary, and political pressures that state legislatures faced in making the reforms; and (3) impact of the legislative remedies in addressing educational funding disparities.
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