Developing a school finance system for K-12 reform in Qatar / Cassandra M. Guarino ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Rand Corporation monograph series
• Author: Qatar. Supreme Education Council.
• TeilnehmendeR: Guarino, Cassandra M.; Qatar. Supreme Education Council.; Rand-Qatar Policy Institute.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Rand Corporation monograph series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Notes: "MG-839-QATAR"--P. [4] of cover.; "Prepared for the Supreme Education Council."

Reform-minded leaders of Qatar, who have embarked on a sweeping reform of their nation's education system, asked RAND to evaluate the education finance system that has been adopted and to offer suggestions for improvements. The authors analyze the system's evolution and resource allocation patterns between 2004 and 2006 and develop analytic tools for performing the evaluation, including a framework that allows assessment of the system in light of six main objectives: adequacy, efficiency, equity, accountability, transparency, and an appropriate balance between stability and responsiveness. Sev

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Trends in financial resource allocation in the reform -- Evaluation of the reform's school finance system -- Tool to forecast spending on the reform -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendix A: Description of data sources -- Appendix B: Description of forecasting tool baseline assumptions.