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Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Schneider, Lauren; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2021
The State Indicators Database (SID), which is the School Finance Indicators Database's (SFID) primary product, includes approximately 125 variables, but this report focuses on three key school finance measures: fiscal effort, adequacy, and progressivity. This report discusses how states' systems tend to mediate the impact of economic downturns and…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support, Educational Finance
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Soto-Vázquez, José; Jaraíz-Cabanillas, Francisco; Pérez-Parejo, Ramón; Gutiérrez-Gallego, José – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
This paper offers a review of history of education statistics in Spain, starting in the mid-nineteenth century, describing their traditional means of operation based on censuses, flat tables, and macro-statistical data, which usually display a purely quantitative analysis. Only in recent decades have statistical analyses appeared, supported by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Educational History, School Statistics
Hill, Laura; Warren, Paul; Murphy, Patrick; Ugo, Iwunze; Pathak, Aditi – Public Policy Institute of California, 2016
California's system of special education served about 718,000 students in 2014-15, or about 11.5 percent of the K-12 population. It is expensive, consuming some $12 billion in federal, state, and local dollars annually. Special education operates within a legal framework that sets it apart from the rest of the K-12 system. The state's enactment of…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas
Carter, Ted – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2017
This report provides comparisons between Kansas and relevant state groups on key demographic variables. It is a companion piece to the "KASB Comparing Kansas 2017" report that helps show how factors outside of school funding may have an impact on student outcomes for each state. In addition, the Appendix contains the detailed tables…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Adults, Population Distribution, Institutional Characteristics