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For over three decades the Journal of Education Finance has been recognized as one of the leading journals in the field of the financing of public schools. Each issue brings original research and analysis on issues such as educational fiscal reform, judicial intervention in finance, adequacy and equity of public school funding, school/social agency linkages, taxation, factors affecting employment and salaries, and the economics of human capital development.
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Volume 37, Number 4, Spring 2012Editorial Board
Board of Editors
Chair: Kern Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe, Miami University, Ohio
Mary F. Hughes, University of Arkansas
Anne Miller, Edison Learning
Richard G. Salmon, Virginia Tech
Julie K. Underwood, University of Wisconsin-Madison
R. Craig Wood, University of Florida
Editorial Staff
Editor
Kern Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Editors
Shari Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nadia Geagea Pupa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Technical Editor
Wesley K. Alexander, Education Policy Research, Inc.
Book Review Editor
Stephen Chaikind University of Gallaudet UniversityEducation Policy Editors
Craig E. Richards Columbia University
Deborah A. Verstegen University of Nevada-Reno
Finance Law Editor
M. David Alexander Virginia Tech
Legislative Editor
David C. Thompson Kansas State University
Faith E. Crampton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Editorial Advisory Board
Michael Addonizio Wayne State University
Wesley K. Alexander
Education Policy Research, Inc.
Katherine E. Baird University of Washington, Tacoma
Bruce D. Baker University of Kansas
Brian O. Brent University of Rochester
Frank Brown University of North Carolina
William E. Camp University of North Texas
John Dayton
University of Georgia
Jennifer Delaney
University of Illinois
Lisa G. Driscoll
University of North Carolina
Toni Elitharp
Pulaski County Public Schools,
Virginia
William J. Fowler
George Mason University
Robert Frost
Oregon State University
William Glen
Virginia Tech
Carolyn D. Herrington
Florida State University
Marilyn A. Hirth
Purdue University
David S. Honeyman
University of Florida
Eric A. Houck
University of Georgia
Luis A. Huerta
Columbia University
Richard C. Hunter
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ed Hurley
National Education Association
Teresa S. Jordan
University of Nevada,
Las Vegas
Roger T. Kaufman
Smith College
Richard A. King
University of South Florida
Robert C. Knoeppel
Clemson University
Barbara LaCost
University of Nebraska
Daniel T. Layzell
University of Illinois
Jeffrey Maiden
University of Oklahoma
Betty Malen
University of Maryland
Martha M. McCarthy
Indiana University
Walter W. McMahon
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Mary P. McKeown Moak
MGT of America
Lynn M. Moak
Moak Consulting
David H. Monk
Pennsylvania State University
Christopher M. Mullin
Southern Illinois University
William A. Owings
Old Dominion University
Jerald E. Paquette
University of Western Ontario
Gary Peevely
Tennessee State University
Laura Perna
University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Rolle
Texas A & M University
Catherine Sielke
University of Georgia
William E. Sparkman
University of Nevada-Reno
Leanna Stiefel
New York University
David C. Thompson
Kansas State University
Robert K. Toutkoushian
University of Georgia
Randall S. Vesely
Indiana University, Purdue University at Fort Wayne
Andrew Wall
University of Rochester, New York
Jian Liang Wang
Western Kentucky University
Geoffrey Woglom
Amherst College