No Accounting for Fairness: Equitable Education Funding

“No Accounting for Fairness” examines funding patterns in Ohio’s 14 largest school systems by looking at publicly available school-level expenditure data on teacher salaries, which typically accounts for 80 to 90 percent of elementary school budgets. The analysis found that expenditures on teacher salaries during the 2007-08 year vary dramatically between elementary schools within the same district.