Jon Sonstelie - Recent Publications

For Better or Worse? School Finance Reform in California (with Eric Brunner and Kenneth Ardon)

“Capitalization and the Voucher: An Analysis of Precinct Returns from California’s Proposition 174” (with Eric Brunner)

School Finance and California’s Master Plan for Education (co-edited with Peter Richardson)

“Toward Cost and Quality Models for California’s Public Schools”

“Is There a Better Response to Serrano?”

“Limits on Local Property Taxation: Commentary”

“Homeowners, Property Values, and the Political Economy of the School Voucher” (with Eric Brunner)

“School Finance Reform and Voluntary Fiscal Federalism” (with Eric Brunner)

High Expectations, Modest Means: The Challenge Facing California’s Public Schools (with Heather Rose, Ray Reinhard, and Sharmaine Heng)

School Budgets and Student Achievement in California: The Principal’s Perspective (with Heather Rose and Peter Richardson)

“Financing Adequate Resources for New York Public Schools”

School Resources and Academic Standards in California:  Lessons from the Schoolhouse (with Heather Rose and Ray Reinhard)

“California’s School Finance Reform: An Experiment in Fiscal Federalism” (with Eric Brunner)

Fiscal Realities:  Budget Tradeoffs in California Government, (with Tracy Gordon, Jaime Calleja Alderete, Patrick J. Murphy, and Ping Zhang)

Aligning School Finance with Academic Standards:  A Weighted-Student Formula Based on a Survey of Practitioners

“An Analysis of Professional Judgments” (with Heather Rose)

"Financing California's Public Schools"

"Funding Formulas for California Public Schools: Simulations and Supporting Data" (with Heather Rose, Ria Sengupta, and Ray Reinhard)

"Funding Formulas for California Schools II: An Analysis of a Proposal by the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence" (with Heather Rose, Ria Sengupta, and Ray Reinhard)

"School Board Politics, School District Size, and the Bargaining Power of Teachers' Unions" (with Heather Rose)

“Competition and Personality in a Restaurant Entry Game” (with Theodore Bergstrom and Shane Parendo)