A form of federal aid given directly to the states, which a state or local education agency may spend as it wishes with few limitations.
What are Block grants.
100
Money given by a state to its cities and towns to provide essential services, including the operation of public schools.
What is State aid.
100
Various proposals that would allow parents to choose the schools their children attend.
What is School choice.
200
A 1981 federal law giving the states a broad range of choices for spending federal aid to education.
What is the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA).
200
State-appropriated funds to cover the costs of educating students with special needs.
What is Categorical aid.
200
An effort to provide equal educational opportunity within a state by providing different levels of funding based on economic needs within school districts.
What is Vertical equity.
300
Federal programs to meet the educational needs of special populations.
What are Entitlements.
300
State programs to ensure statewide financial equity by setting the same per-pupil expenditure level for all schools and districts.
What are Full-funding programs.
300
Funds allocated to parents that they might use to purchase education for their children from public or private schools in the area.
What is a Voucher system.
400
The amount of money spent on each pupil in a school, school district, state, or nation; usually computed according to average daily attendance.
What is Expenditure per pupil.
400
Includes the development of charter schools and for-profit schools to provide an alternative to the perceived inadequacies of the public schools.
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Umbrella term for reform initiatives that seek to run public schools as private enterprises.
What is the Privatization movement.
400
Independent, innovative, outcome-based, public schools, started by a group of teachers, parents, or others who obtain a charter from a local school district, a state, or the federal government.
What are Charter schools.
500
Local taxes assessed against real estate and, in some areas, against personal property in the form of cars, household furniture and appliances, and stocks and bonds.
What are Property taxes.
500
The practice of redrawing district boundaries to equalize educational funding by reducing the range of variation in the ability of school districts to finance education.
What is Redistricting.
500
Operated by private corporations, they include such projects as the Edison Schools and the Tesseract Group, Inc.