Municipal Overburden: Its Measurement and Role in School Finance Reform.

Autor/inn/en	Knickman, James R.; Reschovsky, Andrew J.
Institution	National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC.
Titel	Municipal Overburden: Its Measurement and Role in School Finance Reform.
Quelle	(1981), (27 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; City Government; Educational Finance; Elementary Secondary Education; Financial Problems; Fiscal Capacity; Human Services; Municipalities; Property Taxes; State Aid; Tax Rates; Urban Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Finanzmittel; Humanitäre Hilfe; Magistrat; Steuergruppe
Abstract	The concept of municipal overburden refers to the relationship between municipalities' educational funding and the fiscal stress generated by their heavy expenditures on both educational and noneducational services. The authors examine three aspects of the problem of municlpal overburden. First, in a literature review, they discuss the measurement of fiscal stress and municipal overburden, noting the shortcomings of existing measures of fiscal stress and proposing an alternative measure. Second, they analyze city governments' actual responses to fiscal stress in order to find whether fiscal problems have reduced educational spending. Their review of the research finds ambiguous results and limited empirical evidence. The third aspect examined is the relationship of municipal overburden to state educational aid. The authors suggest several modifications of state aid formulas that they feel would take municipal overburden into account. (Author/RW)
Anmerkungen	Not available separately; see EA 013 769.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC