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Ingle, William Kyle; Johnson, Paul Andrew; Givens, Matt Ryan; Rampelt, Jerry – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2013
Using logistic regression, this study sought to understand the relationship between district characteristics, district finances, levy characteristics, and campaign expenditures with new operating levy outcomes. We found that employee benefits as a percentage of the district's budget were negatively associated with levy outcomes, while salaries…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Evidence, Stakeholders, Expenditures
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
Understanding how policy can affect university education is important for understanding how governments can promote human capital accumulation. This paper exploits historic changes to university funding policies in the UK to estimate the impact of tuition fees and maintenance grants on university participation. Previous work on this, which largely…
Descriptors: Tuition, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Grants
Lee, John B. – Achieving the Dream, 2010
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" highlights some of the differences that exist between states. In addition to Achieving the Dream data, this report includes data from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) for the 2008-09 academic year to…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Low Income Groups, Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs