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School Funding Litigation
Daphne Kenyon, Bethany Paquin, and Semida Munteanu
July 2024, English
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Over the past 70 years, school finance litigation has been a constant presence in the public discourse about K–12 education in the United States. This paper describes four waves of school finance litigation and discusses research on the impact that school finance litigation has had on state-local revenue mix, spending, and student achievement.
Keywords
Local Government, Property Taxation, Public Finance