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The Impact of Proposal A on School Financing, Equity, and Quality of

Public Schools in the State of Michigan
ODED IZRAELI is a professor or economics in the School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. KEVIN J. MURPHY is a professor of economics in the School of Business Adminsitration at Oakland University.

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Are America’s Poorest Children Receiving Their Share of  Federal Education Funds? School-Level Title I Funding in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago
CAROLYN A. BROWN is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

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Fiscal Equity Comparisons Between Current and Capital Education Expenditures and Between Rural and Non-rural Schools in Oklahoma
JEFFREY MAIDEN is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Normal, Oklahoma. RODNEY STEARNS is assistant principal at Edmond Santa Fe High School, Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Benefit Incidence Analysis in Education
GERARD LASSIBILLE is director of research at the Institut de Recherche sur l"Economie de l'Education in the centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. JEE-PENG TAN is an education advisor for the World Bank.

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What Is the Relationship Between Resources and Student Achievement?

A Canonical Analysis
ROBERT C. KNOEPPEL is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky. DEBORAH A. VERSTEGEN is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Nevada and O'Leary Chair in Financial Management at the University of Illinois.

JAMES S. RINEHART is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Educational Leadership Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Warranting Failure:

The “System” That Breeds Poverty and Starves Public Schools
KERN ALEXANDER is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. RICHARD G. SALMON is a professor at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

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