Article
Implications of Micro-level School Finance Data for Equity Litigation and the Right to Education
eJournal of Education Policy
(2008)
Abstract
The right to education has been debated in the United States since the first public school system was created. While the most recent wave of litigation concerning educational rights has shifted the deliberation from traditional equity concerns to emphasize educational adequacy, efforts to recognize education as a fundamental right have met with mixed success. A key barrier has been an all or nothing approach to evaluating educational systems that fails to recognize the importance of some educational
goods over others. The emergence of micro-level school finance data that traces the flow of educational resources to the classroom, and in some cases student level, has the potential to dramatically change how these cases are approached.Â
Keywords
- School finance,
- equity,
- right to education,
- data
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2008
Citation Information
John Pijanowski. "Implications of Micro-level School Finance Data for Equity Litigation and the Right to Education" eJournal of Education Policy (2008) ISSN: 2158-9232 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pijanowski/1/