School finance and equity in England: an analysis of strategies and consequences

SIMKINS, T. J. (2004). School finance and equity in England: an analysis of strategies and consequences. Educational management administration and leadership, 32 (4), 369-386.

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Link to published version:: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143204046493

Abstract

This article analyses the development of school funding in England between 1988 and 2002 from two perspectives. The first perspective is temporal, showing how the history of funding has evolved through a number of phases reflecting changing policy emphases and purposes. A major change that is explored in some detail is the increased use by the post-1997 Labour Government of direct funding tied to specific policy objectives. The second perspective is conceptual, exploring how, as the reform agenda has evolved, there have been changes both in the relative priority given to equity as an objective and to the ways in which it has been defined both explicitly and implicitly in relation to the funding mechanisms used to achieve it. The main theme that emerges here is the change from a funding regime that focuses on the transparent achievement of equity in resource inputs to one which focuses much more emphasis on an ‘adequacy’ agenda: the targeting of resource inputs to achieve specific outcomes for particular groups of students.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: economics of education, funding, resources, standards fund
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Sheffield Institute of Education
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741143204046493
Page Range: 369-386
Depositing User: Ann Betterton
Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2008
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 23:30
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/167

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