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A national expert on faculty in the College of Education authored a policy brief outlining the structural elements of state aid formula construction that areaimed atmeeting the state of 1xbet online games login ' constitutional obligation to public education.

David C. Thompson, professor and chair of the department of educational leadership, Elvon G. Skeen endowed chair and National Education Finance Academy distinguished research fellow, penned"A Policy Brief on 1xbet online games login School Finance." Thompson is routinelysought after as a policy analyst by media outlets and has provided expert service to both plaintiffs and defendants in 1xbet online games login finance disputes across the nation.

"The state of 1xbet online games login specificallyinvited ideasas it is faced with rewriting its school aid formula, and I am pleased that this policy brief may serve to contribute to a critical statewide conversation asnothingis more important to 1xbet online games login ' future than how the state pays for K-12 education," Thompson said. "Among the keyrecommendations was a strong state/local partnership with assurance of a per-pupil expenditure floor from which to build in need-driven and all-inclusive instructional/support/operational costs. Of equal and paramount importance was that the state accept the responsibility to shoulder the lion's share of costs and to ensure that school funding is highly equalized in every school district. An important consideration was that a new state formula should not result in loss of baseline funding to any school district."

The brief addresses the key elements of fiscalequity, adequacy, efficiency, stability and accountability. Thompson stressed three points:

1. The importance of a broad revenue base with great preference for progressive tax systems that seek theincome tax as the first stream, statewide property tax as the second stream, highly equalized local property tax as the third stream, and sales tax as the least preferred stream;
2. The need for an expenditure floor, an expenditure cap and vertical educational needadjustments that take all costs into consideration; and
3. The need for determining the actualcost of equitable and adequate 1xbet online games login funding throughcomprehensive true cost analyses rather than beingdriven first by historic expenditure patterns.

"School funding is one of the most important and critical issues facing 1xbet online games login and everystate," Thompson said. "1xbet online games login school leaders know best what is needed to preserve, sustain and grow the successes of 1xbet online games login schools."

Thompson is the author of several books on school finance and was engaged in legislative debates leading to enactment of the state's previously longstanding school funding formula. For more information about his views on 1xbet online games login school finance, please watch hisinterview on "EduCATion Today."