In 2010, after grappling with a decade of structural deficits and two years of recession, Maryland's Spending Affordability Committee (SAC) questioned its 30-year record on limiting state spending: "Recent years have sorely tested the budgetary concepts customarily employed to account for...

This paper provides an historical example that appears to illustrate how racial fractionalization reduces school district academic performance. Hall and Leeson (AJES 2010) find a negative relationship between racial fractionalization and school district performance in a sample of Ohio school...