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Edwards, Brian – EdSource, 2011
California entered 2010-11 with a longstanding imbalance between ongoing spending and income. To help close that gap, state policymakers suspended Proposition 98, the minimum funding guarantee for K-12 schools and community colleges. In total, revenues for K-12 schools are down nearly 10% this year compared with 2007-08. Yet more cuts loom as the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Resource Allocation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Whitehurst, Grover J.; Chingos, Matthew M. – Brookings Institution, 2011
Class size is one of the small number of variables in American K-12 education that are both thought to influence student learning and are subject to legislative action. Legislative mandates on maximum class size have been very popular at the state level. In recent decades, at least 24 states have mandated or incentivized class-size reduction…
Descriptors: Class Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Small Classes, Performance Factors
Finn, Jeremy D. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2010
In 2002, voters in Florida approved a constitutional amendment limiting class sizes in public schools to 18 students in the elementary grades, 22 students in middle grades, and 25 in high school grades. Analyzing statewide achievement data for school districts from 2004-2006 and for schools in 2007, this study purports to find that "mandated…
Descriptors: Class Size, Small Classes, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Maxson, Robert C.; Maxson, Sylvia P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Describes how the faculty of the College of Education at California State University, Long Beach, developed an academically rigorous, hands-on teacher credentialing program, with guaranteed results, to meet the demand created in July 1996 when the governor proposed an immediate reduction in class size to a 20-to-1 student/teacher ratio for grades…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Primary Education, Schools of Education
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Biddle, Bruce J.; Berliner, David C. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Describes several prominent early grades small-class-size projects and their effects on student achievement: Indiana's Project Prime Time, Tennessee's Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio), Wisconsin's SAGE (Student Achievement Guarantee in Education) Program, and the California class-size-reduction program. Lists several conclusions,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
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Turley, Steve; Nakai, Karen – Educational Leadership, 1998
California's K-3 Class Size Reduction Initiative (1996) called for a 20:1 student-teacher ratio. Passage of this initiative created an unexpected teacher shortage and presented California teacher-education faculties with several dilemmas having long-term implications. When districts hired uncertified student teachers on an emergency-permit basis,…
Descriptors: Class Size, Primary Education, Small Classes, State Legislation
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Johnson, Kirk A. – Educational Leadership, 2002
Questions positive effects of small classes on student achievement. Describes study using 1998 NAEP reading data to determine whether students in small classes do better than students in large classes. Finds that after controlling for several factors such as gender, students in small classes did no better in reading than students in large classes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
Illig, David C. – 1997
Four initiatives to reduce class size are before the California State Legislature--SB 1414, AB 2449, the Governor's proposal, and AB 2821. Three of them were influenced by the findings reported by Tennessee's Project Student Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR). Project STAR is a longitudinal demonstration project that since 1985 has examined the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education
Schwartz, Joel – 1997
The California Legislature and Governor created the Class Size Reduction (CSR) program as part of the 1996-97 Budget Act. The goal of the program is to increase student achievement by reducing average class sizes from 28.6 students to no more than 20 students in up to 3 grades. The 1997-98 governor's budget proposes expansion of the CSR program to…
Descriptors: Class Size, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education, Expenditure per Student
Roundtree, Mary; Marsh, David – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1997
Explores the effects of California's Class Size Reduction Initiative on district leaders, examines initial district-level implementation efforts, investigates how district implementation proceeded, and analyzes leaders' perceptions of benefits and challenges. Districts that implemented the program smoothly operated at a businesslike speed,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Harris, Douglas N. – Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University College of Education, 2004
Since 1998, Florida voters have passed three amendments that pressure state officials to increase education spending. The 1998 amendment introduced constitutional language establishing the importance of education to the state and its citizens, requiring "adequate provision?for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free…
Descriptors: Tax Rates, Program Costs, Class Size, Small Classes
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Ritter, Gary W.; Boruch, Robert F. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1999
Examines the origins of Tennessee's Project Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) and explores what it was about Tennessee in the mid-1980s that fostered the development of this experimental approach to class size. Highlights the connection between the research world and the political world that resulted in the STAR project. (SLD)
Descriptors: Class Size, Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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Deering, Pamela Dale; Maiden, Jeffrey – Journal of Education Finance, 1999
A recent study found no evidence of inadequate state-aid general funding for Oklahoma's mandated elementary class size requirements as they became more restrictive during implementation phases. Over the years, state aid increased on a per-simulated-class basis for grades K-6. State-aid distribution equity also increased. (MLH)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Class Size, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Addonizio, Michael F.; Phelps, James L. – Journal of Education Finance, 2000
A survey of one national and three statewide studies (in Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama) of class-size achievement effects revealed no consistent pattern across various subjects and grade levels. However, smaller classes can improve student achievement, particularly in early grades and when teacher quality remains constant. (Contains 36 footnotes.)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
People For the American Way, 2002
This report documents the extraordinary crisis facing Florida's public schools and provides evidence that Amendment 9--a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce class sizes--is a cost-effective and invaluable first step to rebuilding its troubled public schools. The report also sets the record straight about the long-term benefits of investing…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Class Size, State Legislation, Small Classes
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