Lifting All Boats? Finance Litigation, Education Resources, and Student Needs in the Post-Rose Era

David P. Sims ()
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David P. Sims: Brigham Young University

Education Finance and Policy, 2011, vol. 6, issue 4, 455-485

Abstract: Rose v. Council for Better Education (1989) is often considered a transition point in education finance litigation, heralding an era of increasing concern for measurable adequacy of education across a broad spectrum of student needs. Prior research suggests that post-Rose lawsuits had less effect on the distribution of school spending than older litigation. This article suggests that this focus on the raw resource distribution masks the important effect of contemporary lawsuits in redistributing money to districts with greater student needs. My findings suggest that a successful lawsuit does raise revenues to a variety of districts but provides more money to those districts with higher plausible indications of student needs. © 2011 Association for Education Finance and Policy

Keywords: education finance litigation; Rose v. Council for Better Education; student needs; resource distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 I21 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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