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Download full textBaker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2022
Over the past 10-15 years, there has emerged a growing consensus, supported by high-quality empirical research, that additional funding improves student outcomes (and funding cuts hurt those outcomes), particularly among disadvantaged students. There are, of course, serious and important debates about how education funding should be spent. Yet…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support
Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Reist, Kayla; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2021
The State Indicators Database (SID), which is the School Finance Indicators Database's (SFID) primary product, includes approximately 125 variables, but this report focuses on three key school finance measures: fiscal effort, adequacy, and progressivity. This report discusses how states' systems tend to mediate the impact of economic downturns and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support
Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2021
We present an overview of spending adequacy among individual K-12 school districts in the U.S. Our results are from a new database of over 12,000 public school districts that allows users to compare each district's actual per-pupil spending levels to estimates of adequate spending levels--i.e., spending required to achieve the common goal of…
Descriptors: School Districts, School District Spending, School District Wealth, Expenditure per Student
Baker, Bruce D.; Di Carlo, Matthew; Schneider, Lauren; Weber, Mark – Albert Shanker Institute, 2021
The State Indicators Database (SID), which is the School Finance Indicators Database's (SFID) primary product, includes approximately 125 variables, but this report focuses on three key school finance measures: fiscal effort, adequacy, and progressivity. This report discusses how states' systems tend to mediate the impact of economic downturns and…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), State Aid, Financial Support, Educational Finance
Direct linkBaker, Bruce D.; Weber, Mark; Atchison, Drew – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a crisis in state and local budgets, potentially leaving many schools to face budgetary declines even as they've had to transform the way they serve their students, particularly those who are most vulnerable. Bruce Baker, Mark Weber, and Drew Atchison offer four recommendations for mitigating the looming fiscal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Peer reviewedBaker, Bruce D.; Markham, Paul L. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
A study analyzed state funding policies for serving limited English proficient (LEP) students and related patterns of state aid allocations to school districts. State efforts were often poorly conceived or applied, and often inadequate. Only New Jersey and Florida met all study criteria for adequacy, "rationality," and equity of funding,…
Descriptors: Categorical Aid, Change Strategies, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
