Reconciling State Aid and Property Tax Relief for Urban Schools: Birthing a New STAR in New York State

Autor/inn/en	Eom, Tae Ho; Killeen, Kieran M.
Titel	Reconciling State Aid and Property Tax Relief for Urban Schools: Birthing a New STAR in New York State
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 40 (2007) 1, S.36-61 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124507304126
Schlagwörter	Taxes; Educational Finance; Resource Allocation; Financial Support; Rural Urban Differences; Urban Schools; Rural Schools; Suburban Schools; Simulation; Economics; School Districts; State Aid; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abgabe; Bildungsfonds; Ressourcenallokation; Finanzielle Förderung; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; Vorort; Vorstadt; Simulation program; Simulationsprogramm; Volkswirtschaftslehre; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	Similar to many property tax relief programs, New York State's School Tax Relief (STAR) program has been shown to exacerbate school resource inequities across urban, suburban, and rural schools. STAR's inherent conflict with the wealth equalization policies of New York State's school finance system are highlighted in a manner that effectively penalizes large, urban school districts by not adjusting for factors likely to contribute to high property taxation. As a policy solution, this article presents results of a simulation that distributes property tax relief using an econometrically based cost index. The results substantially favor high-need urban and rural school districts. (Contains 1 figure, 7 tables, and 13 notes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10