About the Contributors.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. School Finance and Urban Education Reform; Christopher Roellke and Jennifer King Rice.
Part I. Fiscal Dimensions of Urban School Reform.
Chapter 2. Can Whole-School Reform Improve the Productivity of Urban Schools? The Evidence on Three Models; Robert Bifulco.
Chapter 3. Whole School Reform and School-based Budgeting in New Jersey: Three Years of Implementation; Bari Anhalt Erlichson and Margaret Goertz.
Chapter 4. Balancing the Books: The Relationship Between Fiscal Condition, Educational Output, and District Competition in the Metropolitan Districts of Minnesota; Nicola Alexander.
Chapter 5. School Performance and Resource Use: The Role of Districts in New York City; Patrice Iatarola, Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz.
Part II. The Supply, Demand, and Quality of City Teachers.
Chapter 6. Teacher Attrition and Mobility in Urban Districts: Evidence from Wisconsin; Jennifer Imazeki.
Chapter 7. Reducing Novice Teacher Attrition in Urban School Districts: Focusing on the Moving Target; Neil Theobald and Robert S. Michael.
Part III. Equity and Adequacy in Urban Schools.
Chapter 8. The Adequacy of Urban Education: Focusing on Teacher Quality; Whitney Allgood and Jennifer King Rice.
Chapter 9. Using Student Level Data to Measure School Finance Adequacy: An Exploratory Analysis; Lawrence O. Picus, Jacquelyn McCroskey, Ed Robillard, Jane Yoo and Lynne Marsenich.
Part IV. Private School Finance and Private Money for Urban Public Schools.
Chapter 10. Private School Finance: Tugging on the Curtain; Brian Brent.
Chapter 11. Private Money/Public Schools: Early Evidence on Private and Non-Traditional Support for New York City Public Schools; Amy Ellen Schwartz, Hella Bel Hadj Amor, and Norm Fruchter.
Conclusion.
Chapter 12. Fiscal Policy in Urban Education: Lessons Learned and Implications for Research; Jennifer King Rice and Christopher Roellke.