Political Economy of Public Education Finance takes a unique approach in examining distribution of public education spending across urban school districts in the USA. It provides a thorough and rigorous quantitative examination of the joint roles of school choice and political institutions in inequity in school district spending in the USA. This book additionally provides conceptual and empirical treatment to a topic within the vast school choice scholarship that has been studied the least so far: competition among school districts in the urban regional market. The author further offers insight into the role of political institutions in ensuring equity in public school spending. These institutions provide critical leadership in managing inter-school district competition in the regional context. Since equity is in school finance is the outcome of interest in this book, it includes necessary and sufficient attention to the topic too.

Book Information
ISBN 9781498590709
Author Nandan K. Jha
Format Hardback
Page Count 142
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books