Financing Education in a Climate of Change (9th Edition)

This classic resource on school finance contains the most comprehensive and current information that effects school finance, including historical, economic, technological/mathematical, and legal points of view. The writing in this book is both scholarly and engaging, appealing to a diverse audience of students, educational leaders, parents, and legislators. Gives readers a broad overview of school finance in a clear, comprehensive, readable manner. School finance is an ever-changing topic and this book, now in its Ninth Edition, continues to cover all current trends to provide readers with a firm grounding in educational finance issues that administrators need to understand. In-service and pre-service teachers, administrators, legislators and parents.

This classic school finance text is both scholarly and engaging, appealing to a diverse audience of students, educational leaders, parents, and legislators. School finance is an ever-changing topic and this text, now in its Ninth Edition, continues to cover all current trends to provide readers with a firm grounding in educational finance issues that administrators at all levels need to know. It serves as an excellent reference for both practitioners and the academics.

Hallmark Features:

• Provides professors and students with a broad overview of school finance in a clear, comprehensive, readable manner.
• Covers equity for students as well as taxpayers in order to provide a complete perspective for readers.
• Recognizes the importance of identifying future patterns of school finance in the 21st Century.
• Covers issues such as lotteries, vouchers, school choice, lack of facilities and contains updated tables, charts, and coverage of the most recent court cases influencing state finance and church/state matters, keeping the text on the cutting-edge.

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