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The Zuni Data from the Law Case: Zuni Public School v. United States Department of Education
Description
Number of students and available revenue per student in each school district in New Mexico.
Usage
data(zuni)
Format
A data frame with 89 observations on 3 variables: District,
Revenue, and Mem (number of students).
Details
The Zuni data come from a law case "The Zuni Public School District No. 89, Gallup-McKinley County Public School District No. 1, Petitioners v. United States Department of Education" concerning whether the revenue per pupil satisfied the standard for "equal" expenditures per pupil in the state. This classification determines whether most of the federal money given to the state under the law goes to the state or to the local school districts.
Source
Gastwirth (2006).
References
Gastwirth JL (2006). “A 60 million dollar statistical issue arising in the interpretation and calculation of a measure of relative disparity: Zuni Public School District 89 v. US Department of Education.” Law, Probability and Risk, 5(1), 33–61. doi:10.1093/lpr/mgl019.