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Shores, Kenneth A.; Candelaria, Christopher A.; Kabourek, Sarah E. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019
Sixty-seven school finance reforms (SFRs) in 26 states have taken place since 1990; however, there is little empirical evidence on the heterogeneity of SFR effects. We provide a comprehensive description of how individual reforms affected resource allocation to low- and high-income districts within states, including both financial and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, School Districts, Finance Reform
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Simon, Carlee Escue – Leadership and Research in Education, 2015
Ohio has a long history of school funding inequity. This manuscript provides a brief history of Ohio education funding, the equity and adequacy concerns. Education reform efforts have been expanding while the appropriate management of the funding mechanism has been underfunded or entirely ignored. The researcher examines the negative impact of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Change
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Robert C. Knoeppel; Patricia F. First; Matthew R. Della Sala; Chinasa A. Ordu – Journal of Educational Administration, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the connections between state education finance distribution models and student achievement. To date, lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of state finance systems have been heard in 45 states; the judicial interpretation of the requirement to provide equality of educational opportunity has…
Descriptors: State Aid, Resource Allocation, Educational Equity (Finance), Equalization Aid
Hanna, Robert; Morris, Bo – Center for American Progress, 2014
This paper explores what happens to similar groups of children educated in different school districts. In this case, the "twins" in the study are groups of students who live in the same state in similar geographies and who share certain demographic characteristics. For this report, "twin districts" have very similar sizes and…
Descriptors: Productivity, Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Educational Assessment
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Pittner, Nicholas A.; Carleton, Melissa M.; Casto, Cassandra – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
Beginning in 1997, a series of Ohio Supreme Court decisions ruled that Ohio's school foundation-based funding system was unconstitutional. Despite judicially mandated reform directives, little change was made until recently when Ohio adopted a modified Evidence-Based Model (EBM) into its statutory funding scheme. Ohio's EBM is intended to remedy…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Funding Formulas
Gensemer, Bruce L. – 1980
Under Ohio's existing educational finance plan, the power of school districts to purchase the educational resources commensurate with each district's educational needs is far from equal. Consideration of four specific potential reforms, separately and in combination, indicates that greater equity can be obtained. If Ohio is to avoid substantial…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Folger, John; Jones, Dennis P. – 1993
In view of increasing financial pressures, this paper argues that a new approach to fiscal policy and to the structure of the financial relationship between state government and institutions of higher education is needed. A proposed three-part budget would include the following: (1) a base or core lump-sum budget managed by higher education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
Hastings, Anne H.; Bartell, Ted – 1983
The purpose of this report is to analyze how the administrative and paperwork requirements with which local school districts must comply have been affected by the consolidation of 28 federal education programs into the Chapter 2, Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) block grant. The information reported is based on interviews with…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Finance Reform
Cornett, Charles F. – 1975
This document analyzes specific provisions of the Ohio bill that attempts to revise the state's system of school finance. The bill attempts to resolve differences in valuation, tax rate, and wealth while providing basic educational services as well as services to nonpublic schools and to handicapped and special students. On the negative side, the…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
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Roza, Marguerite; Hill, Paul Thomas – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2004
School district budgets typically hide as much as they reveal. Superintendents are finding this as they discover huge deficits that nobody saw coming. District budgets are opaque by design, and they often mask important facts about resource allocation within a district, as well as about total spending. This paper reports the results of an original…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Educational Finance, Collective Bargaining, Resource Allocation