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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Did Cuts in State Aid during the Great Recession Lead to Changes in Local Property Taxes?
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Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Livingston, Max; Roy, Joydeep – Education Finance and Policy, 2014
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 aid cuts in the post-recession period by countering…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts, Financial Support
Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses, and the Test-Taking Population: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida
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Chakrabarti, Rajashri – Education Finance and Policy, 2013
Florida's 1999 A-plus program was a consequential accountability program that embedded vouchers in an accountability regime. Under Florida rules, scores of students in several special education (ESE) and limited English proficient (LEP) categories were not included in the computation of school grades. One might expect these rules to induce F…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Vouchers, Testing, Special Education