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The globalisation of financial markets has attracted much academic and policymaking commentary in recent years, especially with the growing number of banking and financial crises and the current credit crisis that has threatened the stability of the global financial system. This major new Research Handbook sets out to address some of the fundamental issues in financial regulation from a comparative and international perspective and to identify some of the main research themes and approaches that combine economic, legal and institutional analysis of financial markets

1. The nature and theory of the public school -- 2. Fundamental rights and state school finance litigation -- 3. The system and public schools -- 4. Equality of opportunity : the rationale -- 5. Education as an investment in human capital -- 6. The politics of school finance -- 7. Fiscal capacity and tax effort in the funding of public schools -- 8. Taxation for public schools -- 9. The federal role in financing education -- 10. Teacher compensation -- 11. Public funding of private schools : charter schools and vouchers -- 12. Education production functions : whether money matters -- 13. Analyzing equity and adequacy of state school finance -- 14. State school funding methods -- 15. Financial accounting -- 16. Financing school facilities -- 17. School budget development and administration -- 18. Risk management, student transportation, and school food services.

Financing Public Schools moves beyond the basics of financing public elementary and secondary education to explore the historical, philosophical, and legal underpinnings of a viable public school system. Coverage includes the operational aspects of school finance, including issues regarding teacher salaries and pensions, budgeting for instructional programs, school transportation, and risk management. Diving deeper than other school finance books, the authors explore the political framework within which schools must function, discuss the privatization of education and its effects on public sch