School finance
Milwaukee Public Schools: Fiscal Year 2008 Catalog for Chargeback/Buyback Services
July, 2008
The Milwaukee Public Schools Central Services Offices are organized to "provide services to enable and empower the Schools and Board to successfully achieve the anticipated outcomes." Services are either provided in the form of a chargeback or a buyback. This catalog provides prices for various services provided by the Milwaukee Public Schools Central Services Offices.
Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Public Education: How Local School District Funding Practices Hurt Disadvantaged Students and What Federal Policy Can Do About It
June, 2008
In this paper four different authors write about the inequality of funding of local schools by their own school districts and advocate for alternative funding policies to address this challenge. The fourth paper, by Matt Hill, focuses on Oakland Unified School District's "Results-Based Budgeting."
