Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools

• Legal and legislative efforts to reduce spending and achievement gaps.
• The shift from "equity" to "adequacy" as a new standard for determining fairness in education spending.
• The debate and the evidence over the productivity of American schools.
• Strategies for using school finance in support of broader reforms aimed at raising student achievement.

This book contains a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of financing public schools by federal, state, and local governments in the United States. It distills the best available knowledge about the fairness and productivity of expenditures on education and assesses options for changing the finance system.