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Did Cuts in State Aid During the Great Recession Lead to Changes in Local Property Taxes?
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Livingston, Max; Roy, Joydeep - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 4, pp. 383-416
The Great Recession led to marked declines in state revenue. In this paper we investigate whether (and how) local school districts modified their funding and taxing decisions in response to state aid declines in the post-recession period. Our results reveal school districts responded to state...
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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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National Board Certification for Teachers: What Does It Cost and How Does It Compare?
Rice, Jennifer King; Hall, L. Jane - In: Education Finance and Policy 3 (2008) July, pp. 339-373
National Board Certification (NBC) for teachers has become an important innovation in long-standing efforts to improve teacher quality. As states, districts, and teachers increasingly invest resources in this process, information is needed on its cost, impact, and value. This analysis estimates...
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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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(Mis-)Measuring the Relative Pay of Public School Teachers
Podgursky, Michael; Tongrut, Ruttaya - In: Education Finance and Policy 1 (2006) September, pp. 425-440
Statistics on the relative pay of public school teachers are routinely cited by plaintiffs in school finance (“adequacy”) lawsuits. However, comparisons of pay and benefits for public school teachers to those of professional employees in other sectors are complicated by the fact that most...
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Do Charters Retain Teachers Differently? Evidence from Elementary Schools in Florida
Cowen, Joshua M.; Winters, Marcus A. - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) January, pp. 14-42
data on students, teachers, and schools in Florida, we estimate teacher effectiveness based on repeated test scores …
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From Highly Qualified to High Quality: An Imperative for Policy and Research to Recast the Teacher Mold
Rice, Jennifer King - In: Education Finance and Policy 3 (2008) April, pp. 151-164
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The Strategic Data Project's Strategic Performance Indicators
Page, Lindsay C.; Fullerton, Jon; Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; … - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 3, pp. 435-456
Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs) are summary measures derived from parallel, descriptive analyses conducted across educational agencies. The SPIs are designed to inform agency management and efforts to improve student outcomes. We developed the SPIs to reveal patterns common across...
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Performance Pay System Preferences of Students Preparing to Be Teachers
Milanowski, Anthony - In: Education Finance and Policy 2 (2007) February, pp. 111-132
performance pay of students preparing to be teachers. Focus groups and a survey of students preparing to be teachers at a large U ….S. university were conducted. Most students expressed a preference for some form of performance pay and tended to prefer pay based …
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Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding
Ladd, Helen F. - In: Education Finance and Policy 3 (2008) October, pp. 402-423
concentrations of challenging-to-educate students and their effects on the distribution of teachers. In addition, the WSF proposal … can be faulted for paying no attention to adequacy, potentially stigmatizing individual students, and placing so much …
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