This yearbook offers research and insights to stimulate thought, inform debates, and explore future research directions.

Introduction, KarenKenneth K. DeMoss, Wong; Chapter 1 Twenty-First Century Education Finance: Equity, Adequacy, and the Emerging Challenge of Linking Resources to Performance, James W. Guthrie; Chapter 2 Politics and the Meaning of Adequacy: States Work to Integrate the Concept into K to 12 School Finance, John G. Augenblick, Jennifer A. Sharp, Justin R. Silverstein, Robert M. Palaich; Chapter 3 Politics of Plaintiffs and Defendants, R. Craig Wood, David C. Thompson; Chapter 4 Political Contexts and Education Finance Litigation: Toward a Methodology for Comparative State-Level Analyses, DeMoss Karen; Chapter 5 When the Legislative Process Fails: The Politics of Litigation in School Infrastructure Funding Equity, Faith E. Crampton, David C. Thompson; Chapter 6 Toward Stronger Accountability in Federal Title 1: Fiscal Implications in the Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Kenneth K. Wong, Anna C. Nicotera; Chapter 7 Funding Special Education and the IDEA: Promises, Promises, Timothy J. Ilg, Charles J. Russo; Chapter 8 Competing Futures for U.S. Teachers' Unions: Politics at the Crossroads of Fiscal Capacity and Legal Rights, Bruce S. Cooper, Marie-Elena Liotta; Chapter 9 Systemic Reform in Massachusetts: Implementing the Massachusetts Education Reform Act, 1993-2003, Kathryn A. McDermott; Chapter 10 Funding Choices: The Politics of Charter School Finance, Sandra Vergari; Chapter 11 Political Economy of Charter School Funding Formulas: Exploring State-to-State Variations, Kenneth K. Wong, Francis X. Shen; Chapter 12 Within-District Service Inequities in Urban Areas: Political Challenges and Educational Consequences 1 The authors wish to acknowledge three colleagues who read an early draft of this paper and offered helpful suggestions for revision: Professors Ellen Goldring, Anthony Rolle, and Kenneth Wong., Robert L. Crowson, Oketch Moses;