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Kerstin Carlson Le Floch; Steven Hurlburt; Drew Atchison; Katie Hyland – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
This is the appendices for the full report, "Identifying the Nation's Lowest Performing Schools: Shifts Following the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)." This study examines state identification of schools for the most intensive support to see how changes in federal laws and regulations played out nationally and at the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Assessment
Costrell, Robert M. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2008
Throughout the history of publicly-funded voucher programs--enacted and proposed--the impact on taxpayers has been a recurring issue. As the nation's longest-running program, the Milwaukee Parent Choice Program (MPCP) provides an important case study. The fiscal impact of Milwaukee's program has evolved in very significant ways over its 18-year…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School Choice, Program Effectiveness, Educational Vouchers
Wendling, Wayne – 1980
This report is divided into four sections. Section 1 is a short discussion of the economic theory underlying the construction of the cost of education index and an example of how the index is calculated. Also presented are descriptions of the factors included in the statistical analysis to control for quality, quantity, and cost differences and…
Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Research Methodology
Lundeen, Virginia; And Others – 1978
This study related tax rate and per pupil revenue to residential assessed valuation, percent residential of total assessed valuation, and selected socioeconomic independent variables for school districts in Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, and Lake counties in Illinois. Findings suggest that for homeowners and the students of these counties in 1976,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform, Multiple Regression Analysis
Chambers, George A.; And Others – 1978
This study is the first of five studies assembled by the budget committee of the Iowa general assembly to provide information regarding the financing of education by state government. It analyzes general appropriations in the state of Iowa between 1960-76 and compares Iowa's appropriations with those of other states. The results indicate increased…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
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McMaster, Donald; Sinkin, Judy G. – 1979
This handbook is one in a series prepared for use at workshops designed to help teachers, administrators, and legislators understand and deal with the intricacies of school finance equalization plans in their states. Michigan's education finance plan is discussed in this particular book. Chapter 1 discusses how Michigan's plan undertakes its…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student, Income
McMaster, Donald; And Others – 1979
This handbook is one in a series prepared for use at workshops designed to help teachers, administrators, and legislators understand and deal with the intricacies of school finance equalization plans in their states. Pennsylvania's education finance plan is discussed in this particular book. Chapter 1 discusses state support for education in…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
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McMaster, Donald; Sinkin, Judy G. – 1979
This handbook is one in a series prepared for use at workshops designed to help teachers, administrators, and legislators understand and deal with the intricacies of school finance equalization plans in their states. Rhode Island's education finance plan is discussed in this particular book. Chapter 1 discusses how Rhode Island's plan undertakes…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
Spartz, James L. – 1990
Current expense tax rates, local current expense revenues, total current expenses from all revenue sources, and expenditures for salaries were analyzed in 16 school districts to review the effects of a state statute that significantly modified the formula of state equalization fund allocation. Twenty-four tables of financial information are used…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Garms, Walter I. – 1978
This study reports on a method of measuring the equity of state school finance systems. This method attempts to determine the extent to which the system makes adequate provision for education, treats equals equally, and treats unequals equitably. It presents a multiple regression approach to the problem, which allows each goal of school finance to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equal Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
Odden, Allan – 1977
Using extensive data from before and after school finance reforms, the author analyzes the reforms' effects on school finance inequities in Michigan and Missouri, for all school districts and for suburban districts. In Michigan, data from 1970-71 show, the state met neither of two equity standards--equality in expenditure per pupil and fiscal…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
Goertz, Margaret E. – 1979
This document is the second in a series of reports that measures progress to-date in making New Jersey's school finance system fairer to students and taxpayers alike. It examines change in the distribution of revenues and expenditures between 1975-76 and 1978-79, the equity of these distributions, how budget caps influenced these shifts, and the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1997
States have used a variety of strategies to educate poor students and help poor school districts adequately fund the needs of their students. This General Accounting Office report examines: (1) the size of the gap in total (state and local combined) funding between poor and wealthy districts for each state; (2) the key factors that affect the size…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1980
This graphical and textual summary of the state funding claims paid by the Illinois Community College Board during fiscal year (FY) 1980 provides information about three grant categories: credit hour grants; equalization grants; and disadvantaged student grants. The report first details total payments, which amounted to $103,252,400 for credit…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Education, College Credits
Tschechtelin, James D. – 1983
A study of community college funding in Maryland found that the Community College of Baltimore (CCB) faces unique educational circumstances warranting additional state aid. These circumstances largely result from the special needs of Baltimore City, which has a disproportionate concentration of the state's poor and dependent citizens, the greatest…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Demand, Educational Finance, Equalization Aid
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