Volume 31, No. 2
Fall 2005
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Student Performance: Is More Money the Answer?
ANNE L. JEFFERSON has been working in education finance for more than
25 years and has spoken on this area of concern to audiences in Canada, the
United States, China, Belgium, Holland, Australia, and New Zealand 111
The Interaction Between Tax and Expenditure Limitations, Supermajority
Requirements, and School Finance Litigation
TERESA S. JORDAN, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
K. FORBIS JORDAN, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University,
and JAMES CRAWFORD, Assistant Professor in the Department of
Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 125
Modifying Endowment Spending Rules: Is It the Cure for Overspending?
ROGER T. KAUFMAN, Professor and chair of the Department of
Economics at Smith College, Massachusetts and
GEOFFREY WOGLOM, Professor and the Richard S. Volpert
Professor of Economics at Amherst College, Massachusetts 146
District-Level Black–White Funding Disparities in the
United States, 1987–2002
ROBERT BIFULCO, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
at the University of Connecticut 172
Grade Retention: What Are the Costs and Benefits?
ERIC R. EIDE, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics
at Brigham Young University, and DAN D. GOLDHABER,
Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s
Evans School of Public Affairs and an affiliated scholar of the
Urban Institute’s Education Policy Center 195
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