Money, politics, and law : intersections and conflicts in the provision of educational opportunity, 2004 yearbook of the American Education Finance Association

This yearbook offers research and insights to stimulate thought, inform debates, and explore future research directions.

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Twenty-First Century Education Finance: Equity, Adequacy, and the Emerging Challenge of Linking Resources to Performance
• Politics and the Meaning of Adequacy: States Work to Integrate the Concept into K to 12 School Finance
• Politics of Plaintiffs and Defendents
• Political Contexts and Education Finance Litigation: Toward a Methodology for Comparative State-Level Analyses
• When the Legislative Process Fails: The Politics of Litigation in School Infrastructure Funding Equity
• Toward Stronger Accountability in Federal Title I: Fiscal Implications in the Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
• Funding Special Education and the IDEA: Promises, Promises
• Competing Futures for U.S. Teachers' Unions: Politics at the Crossroads of Fiscal Capacity and Legal Rights
• Systemic Reform in massachusetts: Implementing the Massachusetts Education Reform Act, 1993-2003
• Funding Choices: The Politics of Charter School Finance
• Political Economy of Charter School Funding Formulas: Exploring State-to-State Variations
• Within-District Service Inequities in Urban Areas: Political Challenges and Educational Consequences
• Index

The emergence of the concept of "adequacy" is changing the nature of the education finance policy debate.