From the ECS State Policy Database: Finance--Funding Formulas - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

State Funding Programs for High-Cost Special Education Students MS Word PDF - In this country, approximately six million public school students receive special education services. Of these six million students, approximately 300,000 could be defined as "high need" or "high cost" students. This ECS StateNote presents the results of a survey of 12 states' high-cost special education policies to determine how each state defines special education students as being "high-cost" and what, if any, additional funding is provided to districts to address their funding need. (Mike Griffith, Education Commission of the States, May 2008)...

Inflation Adjustments In State Education Funding Formulas MS Word PDF - Several states include inflation, or cost of living, adjustments in their funding formulas that automatically increase state spending on education from one year to the next. This StateNote provides information on six states that have such inflation adjustments. (Michael Griffith, Education Commission of the States, May 2005)...

State Education Funding Formulas and Grade Weighting MS Word PDF - This ECS StateNote describes the different types of funding formulas states use to determine the state share of funding for K-12 public education. The report also includes data on how states weight each grade level within the funding formula. (Michael Griffith, ECS, May 2005)...

State Funding Issues for Small and Isolated Schools and Districts MS Word PDF - To help school leaders in Montana better understand how to provide adequate and effective funding to small and isolated schools and districts, this document reviews the funding formulas in 11 different states to determine what, if any, additional funding is provided to small and isolated schools and districts. (Michael Griffith and Patrick Byrnett, Education Commission of the States, September 2005)...

State Links for School Finance MS Word PDF - This document provides a link to every state's education finance Web site. Each site provides information on state budgets, funding formulas, salaries, frequently asked questions and more. (Molly Burke, Education Commission of the States, 2005)...

Funding Formulas at a Glance - 50-state information on school finance formulas. (NCED, 2011)...

Impact of School Finance Reform on Resource Equalization and Academic Performance: Evidence from Michigan - Michigan radically altered its school finance system in 1994, significantly increasing state aid to the lowest-spending school districts and limiting future increases in spending in the highest-spending ones.This effectively abolished local discretion over school spending. This was quite successful in reducing interdistrict spending disparities. There was a positive effect on the student performance in the lowest-spending districts but negative effect on student performance in the highest-spending districts. (Association of School Finance and Policy, May 2011)...

A Fifty-State Survey of School Finance Policies and Programs: An Overview - This overview provides a synthesis of a comprehensive survey of school finance programs in the 50 states conducted in 2006-07. Information was provided by chief state school finance officers or persons with expertise in a state's public school funding-allocation system. (Journal of Education Finance, Winter 2009)...