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The Forgotten Side of School Finance Equity: The Role of Infrastructure Funding in Student Success

Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

David C. Thompson

Department of Educational Administration and Leadership at Kansas State University and codirector of the UCEA Center for Education Finance

Randall S. Vesely

Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Traditionally, local school districts have shouldered the burden of funding school infrastructure in the name of local control, relying upon local prop erty tax revenues and the willingness of local voters to approve bond issues. Given vast disparities in school districts' property wealth, gross inequities in school facilities will remain without new state or federal funding. With emerg ing research establishing the critical role of the physical environment of schools in student success, adequate and equitable funding of infrastructure takes on new urgency.

NASSP Bulletin, Vol. 88, No. 640, 29-52 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/019263650408864004


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