School Finance Reform Events
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Note: Low income districts are those with average household-income in the bottom 20% of all in the same state districts. High-income districts are those with average household-income in the top 20% of all districts in the same state. Hawaii was excluded as there is only one school district in Hawaii. “Progressive” school funding means that a state’s low-income districts are receiving more funding per student than high-income districts. “Regressive” school funding means that a state’s low-income districts are receiving less funding than the high-income districts.
Source: Authors’ calculations using our database of school finance reforms, district level finance data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Common Core of Data school district files, the Census of Governments, demographics from the CCD school universe files, and household distributions from the 1990 Census.