Education Funding in North Carolina: What is Adequate? What is Equitable?

ERS's Chief Executive Officer and President Karen Hawley Miles presented to the Governor's Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education in North Carolina, focusing on the following four questions:

• What does a state funding system need to accomplish?
• What does “adequacy” in education funding really mean?
• What would it mean to allocate resources equitably?
• How might a state system support excellence and efficiency?