Inequalities in Public School District Revenues

July 1998

(NCES 98-210) Ordering information

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Executive Summary
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Chapter I: Introduction
• Purpose of This Report


• Data Sources and Procedures


• Organization of This Report


• Chapter II: Categorical versus General Revenues
• Summary of Findings


• Analysis and Structure of Tables


• School-Age Children in Poverty


• Minority Enrollment
• District Enrollment


• District Type


• Geographic Region


• Metropolitan Status


• Median Household Income (cost-adjusted)


• Median Value Owner-Occupied Housing


• Conclusion




• Chapter III: Detailed Categorical Revenues
• Summary of Findings


• Analysis and Structure of Tables


• Federal Chapter 1 Program Revenues
• State Compensatory Education Revenues


• Federal Children with Disabilites Revenues


• State Special Education Revenues


• Federal Bilingual Education Revenues


• State Bilingual Education Revenues


• Federal Child Nutrition Revenues


• State School Lunch Program


• Federal Impact Aid


• Conclusion


• Chapter IV: Education Equity in the States
• Summary of Findings


• Percentiles of Revenues per Student by State


• Equity Measures Across the States


• Actual versus Cost-Adjusted Comparisons of Equity Across the States
• Conclusion


• Chapter V: Summary of Findings

• Chapter VI: Implications for Further Research

• References and Related Publications
• Appendix A. Descriptive Information for Independent Variables
• Appendix B. School District Revenues
• Appendix C. Standard Deviations of School District Revenues
• Appendix D. Technical Notes on Data
• Appendix E. Definitions of Key Terms and Variables

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