There is a fundamental accountability problem: courts have limited power to judge what happens inside schools yet mandate spending levels with no reason to believe achievement will improve, and a judge who makes a poor funding decision faces no feedback loop—informational, financial, or otherwise—and thus no incentive to correct mistakes.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

most constitutional designs designed to ideally align people's incentives with outcomes and a judge who makes a moronic decision... there's no feedback loop

Source

Eric Hanushek on Education and School Finance 07/14/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:14:22 AM

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