Source: David Thompson, thomsond@k-state.edu, 785-532-5766
Friday, March 21, 2008
K-STATE PROFESSOR'S TEXTBOOK NOW IN FOURTH EDITION
MANHATTAN -- No one goes unaffected by school funding.
That's the view of David Thompson, chair of the department of educational leadership at Kansas State University, who has co-authored a fourth edition of his school finance textbook "Money and Schools."
Coauthors are R. Craig Wood of the University of Florida and Faith Crampton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"This highly successful book, now in its fourth edition, is used in school leadership graduate degree programs in scores of important universities around the United States for the purpose of training new generations of school administrators about issues of fairness in school funding," Thompson said.
"The public school funding wars in nearly all 50 states underscore the book's power and timeliness, as it is the most up-to-date authority in the entire nation on how public schools should be funded. Virtually everyone should be interested in this book -- future school leaders, current administrators, legislators and laypersons."
Thompson started his career as a classroom teacher, becoming a principal, superintendent and now professor. Thompson previously worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education and has written for numerous national journals on the topics of school finance and education law.