Quality Counts 2005 Examines Changes in School Finance

With 31 states considering major changes in how they pay for public education, the nation’s school finance systems are in transition, an Education Week report set for release this week concludes.

Quality Counts 2005: No Small Change, Targeting Money Toward Student Performance examines what the 50 states and the District of Columbia are doing to pay for public education and to focus those dollars more squarely on student achievement.

The newspaper’s ninth annual state-by-state report card on public education also found that 37 states and the District of Columbia identified a lack of resources or unpredictable funding levels as the most pressing school finance issue, particularly...