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American Education Finance Association
The purpose of this professional organization is to facilitate communication among various parties involved in school financing.

Association of School Business Officials
This organization promotes improvement and advancement of school business management.

Committee for Education Funding
The Committee for Education Funding is a nonpartisan nonprofit coalition of over 100 educational organizations interested in educational financing.

The Condition of Education and Digest of Educational Statistics
These two annual publications from the Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics provide a great deal of information about the finances of U.S. public schools.

National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking and Management
The mission of this part of the Department of Education is "to develop and disseminate information that helps guide the design and implementation of governance arrangements, policy approaches, management strategies, and finance systems that will support high levels of learning by all students."

Redesigning School Finance: Moving the Money to the School
The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory has created a series of multimedia "Pathways to Improvement" pages on key topics in education, including this one, which offers one suggestion for improving the way schools are financed.

School Finance
The weekly publication Education Week has created several compilations of articles on "hot topics," including this one on the financing of public schools.



Tax Sources of School Revenues

National Taxpayers Union
This advocacy organization supports tax reform at all levels. You can search for "education" in the Taxpayer Issues section of their site to find out their positions regarding taxes and education.



Local Financing of Public Schools

School Finance Litigation and Property Tax Revolts
This paper by a Dartmouth professor suggests that property taxes should provide the major portion of school funding.



State Financing of Public Schools

Building a New Role: States and School Facilities
This is a special report collection of articles from Education Week.

EdSource School Finance Overview
This site presents information on school financing in one of the largest states, California, but the sections on "Where the Money Comes From" and "How the Money is Used" include general information about state funding of education across the nation.

Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance
You can read this 1999 book online.

A Snapshot of the States' Fiscal Health
This article from 2001 gives brief summaries of the budgetary conditions in all 50 states at that time, and their effects on public education.



Federal Education Funding

U.S. Department of Education
If you have not yet visited the U.S. Department of Education's web site, you may wish to do so for a glance at the scope of the federal government's involvement with education.



School Finance Trends

Age of School Buildings
This is part of the National Center for Educational Statistics' annual report on The Conditions of Education.

CPRE School Finance Project
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has undertaken a massive research project on school financing. You can find out about the ongoing project and some of its results at this site.

Choice
The weekly publication Education Week has created several compilations of articles on "hot topics," including this one on a variety of different school choice programs.

School Construction
This compilation of articles on "hot topics" from Education Week details nationwide concern over the conditions of public school buildings.