External resources

External publications that use SFID datasets/measures (chronological)

Weber, Mark, and Baker, Bruce D. 2025. Does School Funding Matter In a Pandemic? COVID-19 Instructional Models and School Funding Adequacy. AERA Open 11.

Srikanth, Ajay. 2024. The Adequacy of K-12 School Funding for English Language Learners: A National Analysis. Journal of Education Finance 49(30): 345-66.

Lopez Turley, Ruth N., and Selsberg, Bradley. 2024. Texas School District Funding Gaps. Houston, TX: Houston Education Research Consortium, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University.

Aldridge, Joe. 2024. Last Place: Is Arizona Due for School Finance Litigation. Journal of Law and Education 53(1): 1-40.

Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Oberfield, Zachary W. 2023. The Source Code: Revenue Composition and the Adequacy, Equity, and Stability of K-12 School Spending. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.

Knight, David S., Baker, Bruce, Srikanth, Ajay, Weber, Mark, and Fujioka, Kendall. 2023. Creating an Adequate and Equitable School Finance System in Washington State: Recommendations for State Policymakers. Seattle, WA: University of Washington College of Education.

University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. 2023. County Health Rankings 2023. Madison, WI: Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin.

Allegretto, Sylvia, Garcia, Emma, and Weiss, Elaine. 2022. Public education funding in the U.S. needs an overhaul. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute.

Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Green, Preston III. 2022. Segregation and School Funding: How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.

Baker, Bruce D., Di Carlo, Matthew, and Weber, Mark. 2022. Ensuring Adequate Education Funding For All: A New Federal Foundation Aid Formula. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.

Baker, Bruce, and Weber, Mark. 2022. New Jersey School Funding: The Higher the Goals, the Higher the Costs. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Policy Perspective.

Howard, Marcia. 2022. K-12 Funding: Effort, Adequacy, Progressivity. FFIS State Policy Reports 40(2).

Kenyon, Daphne A., Paquin, Bethany P., and Reschovsky, Andrew. 2022. Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Levin, Jesse, Baker, Bruce, Lee, Jason, Atchison, Drew, and Kelchen, Robert. 2022. An Examination of the Costs of Texas Community Colleges. Austin, TX: Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest at the American Institutes for Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Oberfield, Zachary W., and Baker, Bruce D. 2022. The Politics of Progressivity: Court-Ordered Reforms, Racial Difference, and School Finance Fairness. American Educational Research Journal 59(6): 1229-64.

Rauscher, Emily, and Shen, Yifan. 2022. Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending is Efficient. American Journal of Sociology 128(1): 189-223.

Thymianos, Kristian, Beckwith, Ally M., Saladino, Caitlin J., and Brown, William E. Jr. 2022. State School Finance in the Mountain West, 2019 (K-12 Education Fact Sheet No. 51-3). Las Vegas, NV: The Data Hub at Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute.

University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. 2022. County Health Rankings 2022. Madison, WI: Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin.

Baker, Bruce D. 2021. School Finance and Education Equity: Lessons from Kansas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Baker, Bruce D., and Weber, Mark. 2021. Separate and Unequal: Racial and Ethnic Separation and the Case for School Funding Reparations in New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Policy Perspective.

Baker, Bruce D., Weber, Mark, and Srikanth, Ajay. 2021. Informing Federal School Finance Policy with Empirical Evidence. Journal of Education Finance 47(1): 1-25.

Bradbury, Katharine. 2021. The roles of state aid and local conditions in elementary school test-score gaps (Working paper #21-2). Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Bradbury, Katharine. 2021. Racial and Socioeconomic Test-Score Gaps in New England Metropolitan Areas: State School Aid and Poverty Segregation (New England Public Policy Center Research Report 21-2). Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Green, Preston, Baker, Bruce D., and Oluwole, Joseph. 2021. School Finance, Race, and Reparations. Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice.

Haltom, Nicholas. 2021. How Adequate and Equitable is K-12 Education Funding in the Fifth District? Richmond, VA: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Srikanth, Ajay, Atzbi, Michael, Baker, Bruce D., and Weber, Mark. 2021. “How States Fund Education.” In Bowman, Kristine L. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Education Law. Bethesda, MD: Oxford University Press.

Baker, Bruce D., and Di Carlo, Matthew. 2020. The Coronavirus Pandemic and K-12 Education Funding. Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker Institute.

Baker, Bruce D., Srikanth, Ajay, Cotto, Robert Jr., and Green, Preston C. III. 2020. School Funding Disparities and the Plight of Latinx Children. Education Policy Analysis Archives 28(135).

Garcia, Emma, and Weiss, Elaine. 2020. A policy agenda to address the teacher shortage in U.S. public schools. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute.

Sargrad, Scott, Yin, Jessica, Partelow, Lisette, and Harris, Khalilah M. 2020. Public Education Opportunity Grants: Increasing Funding and Equity in Federal K-12 Education Investments. Washington, D.C.: Center for American Progress.

Weber, Mark, and Baker, Bruce D. 2020. School Funding in New Jersey: A Fair Future for All. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Policy Perspective.

Baker, Bruce D., and Chingos, Matthew M. 2019. Toward a Rich Data Future for School Finance Research. AERA Open 5(4): 1-6.