School Fee Study Flunks The Test
- William Fulton
- Dec 23, 2018
- 4 min read
The so-called Shapell test for calculating school fees, first laid out by an appellate court in 1991, appears pretty straightforward. A school district must (1) project the amount of new housing expected to be constructed; (2) determine how many students are likely to be generated by the new housing; and (3) estimate what it will cost to provide the necessary school facilities for that number of new students.