CPRE’s School Finance Research: Fifteen Years of Findings
Allan Odden, CPRE, UW-Madison

"CPRE and particularly the CPRE group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been working on school finance redesign since 1990. The issue that has driven this effort has been the goal of state standards-based education reform and, more recently, of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act to teach all students to high standards. This goal has shifted the orientation of the education system from inputs to outcomes – student achievement to rigorous performance standards – with an attendant accountability focus at the school site. In the broader school finance community, this focus has induced a shift from “equity” to “adequacy,” for both litigation and policy. Though adequacy narrowly seeks to identify the level of dollars needed to produce a desired level of student achievement, its more general objective is to redesign the finance system to link resource levels and resource use practices more directly to student learning." To read more about this research click here.

"School Finances: Paramount Duty", Seattle Post-Intellingencer by Seattle Post Intelligencer Editorial Board, December 28, 2007

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Teacher Attrition: A Costly Loss to the Nation and to the States -click here