Full Description
State school finance formula cause funding inadequacy, allocative inefficiency, and educational resource equity gaps. Legislative and court-ordered remedies have failed to solve the disparities among schools and districts. This book's ground-breaking innovation shows how to shift the public education finance paradigm to fund K-12 public education properly, fully, and equitably by eliminating the duplicative and unnecessary layer of county government nationwide and repurposing those tax dollars while implementing economies of scale to achieve allocative efficiency.
Contents
Foreword — Charles J. Russo
Section I: Overview
Mission — Stephen V. Coffin
Value Proposition — Stephen V. Coffin
Section II: Constitutional Requirements
Lest There Be Any Doubt: Constitutional Sovereignty as the Basis for Education Reform in Kentucky — William E. Thro
State School Funding Formula-based Inequities — Stephen V. Coffin
Section III: Inequities in Human Resources
Teachers: Adopting a Culturally Grounded Asset-Based Mindset — Corinne Brion
Culturally Proficient Professional Development — Corinne Brion
Special Education — Keith Dewey and Stephen V. Coffin
Resource Inequities among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students — Thomas Barger
Section IV: Inequities in Crucial Services
Early Childhood Education — Karin Garver
School-based Healthcare Services — Camille A. Clare and Tanya O. Rogo
Consumer Education for Attaining Life Goals — Luke Greeley
Section V: Innovation
Combatting Diseconomies of Scale — Stephen V. Coffin
Gaining Public Support for Public Funding of Public Education — Stephen V. Coffin
Achieving Economies of Scale and Building Fiscal Capacity in Large School Districts — Stephen V. Coffin
K-12 N.A.P.R.Holistic Budgeting Model — Stephen V. Coffin
Section VI: Conclusion
Rescue Plan — Stephen V. Coffin
Redlining Education — Stephen V. Coffin
Achieving Educational Resource Equity — Stephen V. Coffin
