This Brief explores school funding reform in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1990, Kentucky passed the Kentucky Education Reform Act designed to overha

Improving public schools through performance-based funding Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now sp

Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded. However, missing in the current literature landscape is a nuanced discussion of

Many believe that American education can only be improved with a sizable infusion of new resources into the nation's schools. Others find little evidence that l