Analyzes measure of professional development expenditures by U.S. school districts using three panels of data from the Census Bureau. Finds that districts devote approximately 3 percent of total general expenditures to professional development, which equates to approximately 200 dollars per pupil. Findings reflect a fairly flat trend in new…

Argues that existing educational cost index proposals discriminate against rural/small school districts. Proposes an alternative index which should enable equitable treatment of these districts. (Author/JBM)

This paper establishes the importance of examining resource-allocation behavior at microlevels of educational systems and reports on the progress being made in New York to develop and examine a set of relevant indicators. The paper presents findings that were part of a multistate effort conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education…

Conventional research dealing with education finance in general and resource allocation in particular has focused on the raising of revenues at federal, state, and local levels and the subsequent apportionment of these resources across schooling systems, typically school districts. Concern about productivity and equity, however, cannot be…

This paper explores the impact of school district organizational structure on the productivity of educational systems and describes the implementation in New York State of a collaborative study process involving school district reorganization. The case for organizing schools or districts into larger units is typically made on either efficiency or…