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Per Capita Funding: The Next Step to Better Schools
Author(s) -
Marks John
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01860.x
Subject(s) - voucher , per capita , state (computer science) , argument (complex analysis) , public administration , economic growth , political science , per capita income , economics , public economics , business , accounting , sociology , medicine , demography , population , algorithm , computer science
Changes to the state funding of education through Local Education Authorities must be gradual but are urgently required to improve standards. Dr John Marks, a member of the Hillgate Group which produced Whose Schools?, presents the argument for per capita grants to schools as a halfway‐house between local authority funding and vouchers.