Since the late 1980s, state court judges across the country have derived authority from the "education clauses" of their state constitutions, deemed state funding for K–12 schools inadequate, and required states to channel vast new sums into education. The underlying assumption is that more resources will lead to better outcomes. Indeed, increased funding has led to additional programs and personnel and to new and improved facilities--but has it led to commensurate gains in student achievement? If not, what would it take for these investments to deliver? Stanford University's Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth, a senior partner in the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, will discuss these and related questions, drawing from their recent volume, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools (Princeton University Press, 2009). Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, will offer a response. AEI's director of education policy studies Frederick M. Hess will moderate.
Juliet Squire
American Enterprise Institute
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Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
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VRodman@aei.org
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