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Messengers of Bad News or Bad Apples? Student Debt and College Accountability

Darolia, Rajeev - In: Education Finance and Policy 10 (2015) 2, pp. 277-299

-profit sector, increasingly accountable for the student loan repayment behavior of their students. Such efforts endeavor to protect … taxpayers against the misuse of public money used to encourage college enrollment and to safeguard students against potentially … loan default measures also disproportionately enroll low-income, nontraditional, and financially independent students …

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Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?

Johnson, William R. - In: Education Finance and Policy 1 (2006) June, pp. 288-315

This article estimates the dollar amount of public higher education subsidies received by U.S. youth and examines the distribution of subsidies and the taxes that finance them across parental and student income levels. Although youths from high-income families obtain more benefit from higher...

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Lifting All Boats? Finance Litigation, Education Resources, and Student Needs in the Post-Rose Era

Sims, David P. - In: Education Finance and Policy 6 (2011) October, pp. 455-485

Rose v. Council for Better Education (1989) is often considered a transition point in education finance litigation, heralding an era of increasing concern for measurable adequacy of education across a broad spectrum of student needs. Prior research suggests that post-Rose lawsuits had less...

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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? A Benefit/Cost Analysis of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program

Wolf, Patrick J.; McShane, Michael - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) January, pp. 74-99

publicly funded private school vouchers to nearly four thousand students to attend any of seventy-three different private … of Education Sciences, found that the students who were awarded Opportunity Scholarships graduated from high school at a … rate 12 percentage points higher than the students in the randomized control group. This article estimates the benefit …

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Policy Makers and Researchers Schooling Each Other: Lessons in Educational Policy from New York

Cunningham, Deborah H.; Wyckoff, Jim - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 275-286

Policy makers and researchers are intrigued with but also frequently frustrated by each other. Although these differences are understandable and predictable, it is clear that research on a variety of educational issues has been both influential and valuable in the development of policy and...

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Funding Special Education by Total District Enrollment: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Policy Considerations

Dhuey, Elizabeth; Lipscomb, Stephen - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 316-331

Several states and the federal government distribute aid for special education programs based primarily on total district enrollment and a fixed aid amount per student, a method called census funding. In this policy brief, we address three questions to help policy makers, educators, and...

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Financial Aid's Role in Meeting State College Completion Goals

Hillman, Nicholas W.; Orians, Erica Lee - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 349-363

. Additionally, by targeting aid in ways that encourage college completion, more students (particularly those who are most …

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The Problem with Briefs, in Brief

Conaway, Carrie L. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 287-299

Policy briefs written by academics—the kind typically published in Education Finance and Policy—should be a crucial source of information for policy makers. Yet too frequently these briefs fail to garner the consideration they deserve. Their authors are too focused on the potential...

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Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement

Zimmer, Ron; Gill, Brian; Attridge, Jonathon; Obenauf, … - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 1, pp. 59-85

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Funding Adjusted Poverty Measures and the Distribution of Title I Aid: Does Title I Really Make the Rich States Richer?

Baker, Bruce D.; Taylor, Lori; Levin, Jesse; Chambers, Jay - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 394-417

Federal and state governments in the United States make extensive use of student poverty rates in compensatory aid programs like Title I. Unfortunately, the measures of student poverty that drive funding allocations under such programs are biased because they fail to reflect geographic...

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