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School Finance 101: When Evidence Based Isn’t: Informing State School Finance Formulas to Provide Equal Educational Opportunity for All

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Bruce D. Baker

May 11, 2022

School Finance 101: Toward a Unified Conception of Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Adequacy

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Bruce D. Baker

November 1, 2021

School Finance 101: What Does Research Say About Charter–District School Spending Differences?

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Bruce D. Baker

September 21, 2021

School Finance 101: Child Poverty and State School Finance Formulas

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Bruce D. Baker

September 16, 2021

School Finance 101: Methods for Comparing School Site Spending (and Correctly Making Charter School Comparisons)

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Bruce D. Baker

September 8, 2021

School Finance 101: Time to Tax the Churches!

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Bruce D. Baker

July 12, 2021

School Finance 101: Filling our Nation’s Funding Gaps

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Bruce D. Baker

April 20, 2021

School Finance 101: A Few Thoughts on School Funding and Pandemic Relief

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Bruce D. Baker

March 3, 2021

School Finance 101: Fixing Connecticut School Finance: The Time is Now

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Bruce D. Baker, Robert Cotto Jr., and Preston Green

February 16, 2021

School Finance 101: Getting School Finance Indicators Right

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Bruce D. Baker

February 1, 2021

School Finance 101: The Post-Espinoza End Game

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Bruce D. Baker and Preston Green

August 10, 2020

School Finance 101: On Teachers & Teacher Bashing

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Bruce D. Baker

September 18, 2019

School Finance 101: Toward a Consensus Approach to Evaluating State School Finance Systems! (and Dumping the Others!)

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Bruce D. Baker

November 26, 2018

School Finance 101: It's Just Not Funny Anymore (and Never Was): Reflections on Educational Inequality and Generations Lost

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Bruce D. Baker

June 22, 2018

School Finance 101: More on Within-District “Equity” and Charter Expansion

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Bruce D. Baker

October 16, 2017

School Finance 101: When School Finance Research Died & Why It Matters #MSFRGA

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Bruce D. Baker

October 5, 2017

School Finance 101: School Finance Prerequisites: On Liberty vs. Equality

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Bruce D. Baker

September 22, 2017

School Finance 101: Reality Check: Trends in School Finance

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Bruce D. Baker

September 11, 2017

School Finance 101: The Sweeny-Prieto School Aid Proposal: An Analysis

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Bruce D. Baker and Mark Weber

June 27, 2017

School Finance 101: Thoughts on Junk Indicators, School Rating Systems & Accountability

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Bruce D. Baker

January 3, 2017

School Finance 101: The Charter School Company Store

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Bruce D. Baker

December 13, 2016

School Finance 101: Searching for Costello in New Jersey: Time for a New School Funding Challenge in the Post-Abbott Era?

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Bruce D. Baker

April 1, 2016

School Finance 101: Strolling Through the PARCC (Data)

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Bruce D. Baker

February 23, 2016

School Finance 101: School Finance Reality vs. the Money Doesn’t Matter Echo Chamber

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Bruce D. Baker

December 31, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: On Market Forces & Innovation?

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Bruce D. Baker

December 23, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: What Do We Know About Administrative and Instructional Spending?

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Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2015

School Finance 101: From NJ Ed Policy Forum: On Average, Are Children in Newark Doing Better?

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Bruce D. Baker

November 17, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: Balancing Portfolios

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Bruce D. Baker

October 30, 2015

School Finance 101: Education’s Merchant of Doubt & The Plight of State School Finance Systems

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Bruce D. Baker

August 14, 2015

School Finance 101: Who’s Actually Running Charter Schools?

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Bruce D. Baker

July 22, 2015

School Finance 101: The Collapse of State School Finance Systems & Why It Matters

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Bruce D. Baker

June 26, 2015

School Finance 101: Thoughts on School Funding & Baltimore

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Bruce D. Baker

May 19, 2015

Jersey Jazzman: The KIPP Propaganda Machine and Its Willing Saps in the Media

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Jersey Jazzman

May 12, 2015

School Finance 101: Five Steps to Cagebusting Relinquishment and the Suburban School District of the Future!

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Bruce D. Baker

May 4, 2015

School Finance 101: Worry Not Innumerati-A Whole Bunch of High Income Families Already Opted Out Before the School Year Started!

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Bruce D. Baker

April 22, 2015

School Finance 101: Relinquishing Efficiency: NOLA Data Snapshots

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Bruce D. Baker

April 16, 2015

School Finance 101: On School Finance Equity & Money Matters: A Primer

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Bruce D. Baker

March 3, 2015

School Finance 101: The Cost of Stupid: Families for Excellent Schools Totally Bogus Analysis of NYC Schools

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Bruce D. Baker

February 6, 2015

School Finance 101: More Money, More Money, More Money? Have We Really Ever Tried Sustained, Targeted School Funding for America’s Neediest Children?

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Bruce D. Baker

January 28, 2015

School Finance 101: The Subgroup Scam & Testing Everyone Every Year

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Bruce D. Baker

January 20, 2015

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