The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and recent legislation in a number of states have raised the standards for accountability in schools, with the objective of closing achievement gaps and increasing student performance overall. These new education policies, however, rarely address the way in...

Massachusetts uses an aid formula that accounts for differences among local communities in both fiscal resources and costs. To assess the success of this aid program in reducing fiscal disparities, it is necessary to estimate the costs of providing public services. Implementing these estimates...

This article uses a microsimulation model to demonstrate that suburban residents reap larger benefits from Tax Reform than do urban residents. Tax Reform may also lead many states to reduce their reliance on income taxes. Although the direct incentives to reduce local taxes in central cities are...