Section IV: Financing Rural Education in Iowa: Introduction

Authors

Document Type

Section IV Article

Abstract

The papers in this section address the issues of equity, quality and efficiency with respect to rural schools in Iowa. One author asserts that finance formulas should include a sparsity index, and provides clarity to the terms of equity for both students and taxpayers. A number of proposals are made in other papers for a new state funding formula to include: (1) incentives to move toward 170-180 cost efficient units; (2) equal dollars for educational programming; and (3) the recognition of local factors such as sparsity, geography, and topography. In addition, a proposal is made to determine those programs which should be funded by strictly local revenues.

Journal Title

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Volume

1

Issue

1

First Page

53

Last Page

53

Publisher

Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©1990 North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

(1990) "Section IV: Financing Rural Education in Iowa: Introduction," Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 21.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/21