Examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting K-12 education system in United States. This book provides critiques and explorations of several theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance.

This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better support broader changes needed to improve the educational conditions faced by those individuals and groups traditionally underrepresented in economic, political, and social policy arenas.

Foreword by Patricia Gandara
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory
1 A Political Theory of Social Justice in American Schools
BARRY BULL
2 Critical Race Theory A Priori to Human Capital Theory:
Framing the Discourse on the Nexus Between Social Justice &
Education Finance
ENRIQUE ALEM N
3 Measuring Educational Productivity in the Face of Social Justice Influences: A Discussion of the Efficacy of Relative Economic Efficiency for Determining School Improvement Factors
R. ANTHONY ROLLE
ARTHUR X. FULLER
4 Adequacy Revisited: A Critique of Prominent Conceptualizations of
School Finance Standards
NICOLA A. ALEXANDER
PART II
Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Policy
5 Cycling on in Cultural Deficit Thinking: California School Finance &

the Possibilities of Critical Policy Analysis
GLORIA M. RODRIGUEZ
6 Resource Implications of NCLB for the Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention of Highly Qualified Teachers for English Learners in California
SARAH A. GONZALES
JAMES L. RODRIGUEZ
7 Investing In Student Lives Outside of School to Increase Achievement
Inside Schools
DAVID C. BERLINER
8 On the International Dimension of Education and Social Justice
STEPHEN P. HEYNEMAN
9 Conclusion: Toward a Vision of Social Justice Frameworks
in School Finance
R. ANTHONY ROLLE
GLORIA M. RODRIGUEZ
JULIE LA"PEZ FIGUEROA
About the Contributors