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Selected Papers in School Finance 1995
Student-Level School Resource Measures

Figure 2. Win or loss at supreme court level and percentage change in expenditure per pupil (1978-1993)

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                                  Percentage Change in
                                  Expenditure Per Pupil
                    Count            High   |   Low          Row
                    Exp Val        Increase | Increase      Total
                    ________________________|____________________
                    Won          |      6   |       8  |       14
                                 |    5.1   |     8.9  |     46.7%
     Legal                       |__________|__________| 
     Categories     Lost         |      5   |      11  |       16
                                 |    5.9   |    10.1  |    53.30%
                                 |__________|__________| 
                    Column             11          19          30
                    Total            36.7%       63.3%      100.0%
                                                   Approximate
       Statistic                  Value           Significance
-----------------------          -------          ------------
Contingency Coefficient          0.11931            0.51043 *
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*/ Pearson chi-square probability




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