Based on a model of school district behavior, this paper investigates the
determinants of school revenue and expenditure variation using data for
California unified school districts The effects of stratifying the statewide
sample by district size and by wealth are considered in detail The hypotheses
of the model are consistently supported and prove useful in explaining other
wise puzzling results Implications for both the Serrano case and legislative reforms are developed
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