TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanushek,Eric A.
AU  - Joyce-Wirtz,Matthew
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Incidence and Outcomes of School Finance Litigation: 1968-2021 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Publicly Provided Goods
KW  - jelc
KW  - Educational Finance • Financial Aid
N1  - May 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - School finance court cases have proceeded one or more times in all but two states.  Plaintiffs ask the courts to rule that the existing funding formula is unconstitutional under state constitutions, and the defendants call for continuation of the existing finance formula.  By compiling and analyzing the universe of such cases, we can accurately describe the nature of the cases, the decisions made, and the long run impact on overall financing of schools.  Defendants win a slight majority of decisions with, surprisingly, their victories coming most frequently in low spending states and in low achieving states.  And, while plaintiff victories on average yield an immediate increase in funding, they have no influence on long run growth in school spending
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31271
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31271
ER  -