United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-12-19 monographic deposited born digital 60 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-96-39 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39 P0b002ee18039b2ff f:he96039 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39 HEHS-96-39 Intergovernmental fiscal relations State/local relations Litigation Property taxes Public schools Financial management systems Students Judicial remedies Texas Minnesota Tennessee Letter Report HEHS Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the experiences of three states that reformed their school finance systems, focusing on the: (1) reforms made to each school finance system; (2) legal, budgetary, and political pressures that their state legislatures faced in making the finance reforms; and (3) impact of the legislative remedies in addressing educational funding disparities.<p/>GAO found that: (1) lawsuits prompted each state to address the education funding disparities within its district; (2) the legislative solutions in all three states helped poor districts without harming the educational programs of wealthy districts and were sensitive to public sentiments concerning property taxes; and (3) other states undergoing similar education finance reforms should define the equity goals of their school finance systems in terms of the funding needed to achieve a certain level of student performance, link funding reform with greater accountability for student performance, and encourage all groups affected by education finance reform to participate in the decision-making process. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39.pdf GAO/HEHS-96-39 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-96-39 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-96-39; School Finance: Three States' Experiences with Equity in School Funding; Intergovernmental fiscal relations State/local relations Litigation Property taxes Public schools Financial management systems Students Judicial remedies Texas Minnesota Tennessee