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Canfield, Jacquie – Leadership, 2013
In January 2013, the governor proposed a new funding model for California school districts called the Local Control Funding Formula. As the Legislature debates the proposed new funding model for schools, which is expected to start in the 2013-14 fiscal year, the author thought it would be a good time for a history lesson in California school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, Financial Support, School Districts
Sojourner, Aaron – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
This paper contributes empirically to the literature on peer effects in first-grade classrooms. The paper examines peer effects on academic achievement among first graders randomly assigned to their classrooms and to their teachers as part of Tennessee's Project STAR, America's largest ever education experiment. The analysis draws on previously…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Peer Groups, Classrooms, Peer Influence