School Funding and Student Achievement Lessons Learned from Kentucky and Tennessee /

• Main Author: Spears, Andy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 23
• Subjects: Political science.; Social policy.; Public administration.; Economics.; Public Administration.; Social Policy.; Political Science.

This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overhaul that state’s education system. Two years later, Tennessee passed the Education Improvement Act which included the Basic Education Plan, d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Review Of Literature
• 3. Methodology
• 4. Research Results
• 5. Analysis And Conclusions
• References
• Appendices
• A. Kentucky Survey
• B. Tennessee Survey
• C. Data Error Testing Results.