Financing and Funding Issues
Funding for Justice: Money, Equity, and the Future of Public Education edited by Stan Karp, Robert Lowe, Barbara Miner, and Bob Peterson.
This book gives parents, activists, educators, and policy makers the facts and resources needed to
address issues concerning school finance and equity. The contributions to this publication
include, Stan Karp on "Equity Suits Clog the Courts", Jonathan Kozol on "Savage Inequalities",
Harvey Kantor on "Equal Opportunity and the Federal Role in Education", and Robert Slavin
on "Where Should the Money Go?".
To contact: Rethinking Schools, Ltd.
1001 E. Keefe Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53212 Phone: (414) 964-9646
E-Mail: rethink@excepc.com
Cost-Outcome Methods for Mental Health
written by William A. Hargreaves, Martha Shumway, Teh-wei Hu, and Brian Cuffel, 1998.
Some chapters of this book are: Cost-outcome research in mental health; Special design issues in cost-outcome research;
Concepts of economic cost; Measuring utilization; and others.
Available from Division of Harcourt Brace & Company, 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495
Web site: http://www.apnet.com
Or Academic Press Limited, 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1 7DX, UK
Web site: http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap
"Financing Schools"
The Winter, 1997 issue of The Future of Children (V.7, #3); published by the Center for the Future of Children contains a set of major articles dealing with the topic, including an overall piece summarizing the analyses and recommendations. It is especially interesting to read the various articles using the lens of how schools address barriers to learning.
Contact: the journal office at Center for the Future of Children, 300 Second St.,
Suite 102, Los Altos, CA 94022. An electronic edition of the journal can be
accessed at http://www.futureofchildren.org
A Guide to Developing and Using Performance Measures in
Results-Based Budgeting (1997)
Provides examples of program performance measures related
to education, health, child welfare, welfare reform, mental
health, juvenile justice, and child care licensing. The
Finance Project, a nonprofit organization established by a
consortium of national foundations, focuses on policy to
improve effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public
financing for education, other children's services, and
community building and development. Contact: The Finance
Project, 1000 Vermont Ave. NW., Suite 600, Washington,
DC 20005; Phone: (202) 628-4200;
Web site: http://www.financeproject.org
Funding for School-Linked Services
We are frequently asked about ways to fund school-linked services. A recent report by the Center for the Study of Social Policy describes how a school district in Missouri creatively used Medicaid funding to expand innovative school-based initiatives for children.
The report is entitled, "
A Strike for Independence: How a Missouri School District Generated Two Million Dollars
to Improve the Lives of Children" and presents a model case study of how
the
Independence School District generated more than $2 million from creative use of Medicaid
financing,
primarily through the Medicaid's Early Periodic, Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)
and
administrative case management (ACM) provisions. The Independence School
District took advantage of recent changes in Medicaid mandates for preventive
child health services and benefited from established a close partnership with
the Missouri State Medicaid program.
They were guided by four main principles in their work:
"school friendly."
For more information or to obtain a copy of this report dated May 1994, contact:
Center for the Study of Social Policy
1250 Eye Street, NW
Suite 503
Washington, DC 20005-3922
(202) 371-1565
Funding Resource Bulletin is a newsletter providing information on grants, funding,
and other resources for education and other health and human service programs. Among the featured articles:
To subscribe to the Funding Resource Bulletin, contact:
Education Funding Research Council
4301 North Fairfax Dr., Suite 875
Arlington, VA 22203-1627
(800) 876-0226
(703) 528-6060 (FAX)
