Private Provision of Highways: Economic Issues
Privately financed and operated highways are an idea whose time has come, ended, and returned. The idea returns, however, as...
Missouri’s Challenge: Managing Long-Term Employee Benefit Costs
The Missouri public pension system currently faces serious long-term financial challenges. Missouri taxpayers are facing compound problems regarding the state’s...
The Economic Impact of the Missouri E-10 Ethanol Mandate
Missouri is one of only three states that require a 10-percent minimum ethanol blend (E-10) for retail gasoline sold within...
A New Defendant at the Table: An Overview of Missouri School Finance and Recent Litigation
Like many other states, Missouri has gone through several rounds of school finance litigation. However, the trial just concluded was...
What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?
Econometric cost functions have begun to appear in education adequacy cases with greater frequency. Cost functions are superficially attractive because...
Can Judges Improve Academic Achievement?
Over the last 3 decades student achievement has remained essentially unchanged in the United States, but not for a...
Spending Money When It Is Not Clear What Works
Public school funding in the United States is not a product of intelligent design. Funding programs have grown willy-nilly based...
Next Needed Steps in the Evolution of American Education Finance and Policy
This article asserts that although there has been a consistently increasing demand on both the national and state levels for...
A Framework for Choice Remedy Litigation
Although school choice proponents have generally been on the offensive in legislative arenas over the past 2 decades, they...
