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Front Matter (R1-R12)

Introduction (1-6)

1 Concepts of School Finance Equity: 1970 to the Present (7-33)

2 School Finance Litigation in the Name of Educational Equity: Its Evolution, Impact, and Future (34-71)

3 The Impact of Court-Mandated School Finance Reform (72-98)

4 Court-Mandated School Finance Reform: What Do the New Dollars Buy? (99-135)

5 The Politics of School Finance in the 1990s (136-174)

6 Educational Adequacy and the Courts: The Promise and Problems of Moving to a New Paradigm (175-208)

7 Enabling "Adequacy" to Achieve Reality: Translating Adequacy into State School Finance Distribution Arrangements (209-259)

8 Performance Standards and Educational Cost Indexes: You Can't Have One Without the Other (260-297)

Biographical Summaries of Contributors (298-304)

Index (305-316)