A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

quality of a state's elementary and secondary schools where school quality is approximated by statewide average … insurmountable. In short; we argue that the Hedonic approach to inferring school quality is totally unproductive. Even so, we include …) interstate differences in wages are not consistent with a simple school quality–wage relation; we cannot assume a simple national …