Volume 25, No. 1
Summer 1999
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
To Be Poor, Powerless, and Schooled in America
JAMES GORDON WARD, Professor of Educational Administration,
University of Illinois-Champaign 1
In Search of Excellence for All:
The Courts and New Jersey School Finance Reform
MARGARET E. GOERTZ, Education Professor and Co-Director of the
Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, and
MALEK EDWARDS, Attorney and Graduate Student in the Graduate School
of Education, University of Pennsylvania 5
Standards and Assessments:
The New Measure of Adequacy in School Finance Litigation
MARY MORAN, Education Program Specialist with the U.S. Department
of Education, Washington, D.C. 33
Special Education Funding in Michigan: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
CATHERINE C. SIELKE, Assistant Professor, The University of Georgia, and
CHARLES F. RUSSO, Professor, University of Dayton 81
Efficiency in the Most Rural States:
Litigation Influencing Fiscal Policies Toward Rural Schools
RANDY J. DUNN, Associate Professor of Educational Administration and
Higher Education, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 97
“Rational Education Explanation” or Politics as Usual?
Evaluating the Outcome of Finance Litigation in Kansas
BRUCE D. BAKER, Assistant Professor, and MICHAEL IMBER,
Professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership, University of Kansas 121
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