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Direct linkWilson, Kathryn; Lambright, Kristina; Smeeding, Timothy M. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
This article breaks new ground in the debate on school finance and equality of per pupil school expenditures. We are able to merge school district data with the individual and family data of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). This allows us to examine both student and school district characteristics and to assess several measures of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Racial Differences, School Districts, Educational Opportunities
Schmidt, Stephen J.; Scott, Karen – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
In 1997, Vermont passed Act 60, which reformed its education finance system to achieve greater equality of spending. The reform encouraged wealthy towns to reduce spending; it was politically unpopular and was replaced, in 2004, by Act 68. We analyze the spending incentives created by the two acts and estimate the effects the change will have on…
Descriptors: Incentives, Taxes, State Legislation, Educational Finance
Rebell, Michael A. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
In recent years, state legislatures, state education departments, and advocacy groups in more than thirty states have sponsored education adequacy studies, which aim to determine objectively the amount of funding needed to provide all students with a meaningful opportunity for an adequate education. Based on a detailed analysis of judicial and…
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Costs
Taylor, Lori L. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
A Comparable Wage Index (CWI) is an attractive mechanism for measuring geographic variations in the cost of education. A CWI measures uncontrollable variations in educator pay by observing systematic variations in the earnings of comparable workers who are not educators. Together, the 2000 census and the Occupational Employment Statistics survey…
Descriptors: Wages, School Districts, Employment Statistics, Educational Equity (Finance)
Goldhaber, Dan – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
This brief summarizes findings from several research articles that focus on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). This work focuses on three key questions: Who applies for and becomes National Board certified? Where do National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) teach? Are they more effective than other teachers? The…
Descriptors: National Standards, Teacher Certification, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Podgursky, Michael; Tongrut, Ruttaya – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
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 teachers work under contracts that are nine or ten months…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Educational Finance, Measurement Techniques, Compensation (Remuneration)
