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Courts As Policymakers: School Finance Reform Litigation
Author(s): Anna Lukemeyer (Author)
- Publisher: Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc
- Publication Date: December 9, 2002
- Language: English
- Print length: 242 pages
- ISBN-10: 193120246X
- ISBN-13: 9781931202466
Book Description
Lukemeyer describes four policy important to the effectiveness of school finance reforms: 1) the existence of multiple, sometimes inconsistent, definitions of school finance equity; 2) the uncertain relationship between school spending levels and student outcomes; 3) the role of differences in resource costs and student characteristics in designing an equitable funding system; 4) the role of voter preferences in determining school funding levels. Her book examines the role of each of these issues (and associated expert knowledge) in judicial reasoning and in decisions for or against plaintiffs.
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About the Author
Anna Lukemeyer is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She earned her J.D. from Southern Methodist University (1986) and her Ph.D. (1999) from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.