scholarly journals A study of the school funding formula created by SB 287 in Missouri

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Welker
Keyword(s):  
School Funding ◽  
Funding Formula

scholarly journals Incentives and the Supply of Effective Charter Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (7) ◽  
pp. 2568-2612 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Charter Schools ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Funding Formula ◽  
Funding Policies

Charter school funding is typically set by formulas that provide the same amount for students regardless of advantage or need. I present evidence that this policy skews the distribution of students served by charters toward low-cost populations by influencing where charter schools open and whether they survive. To do this, I develop and estimate an equilibrium model of charter school supply and competition to evaluate the effects of funding policies that aim to correct these incentives. The results indicate that a cost-adjusted funding formula would increase the share of disadvantaged students in charter schools with little reduction in aggregate effectiveness. (JEL H75, I21, I22, I28)

scholarly journals Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Educational Attainment

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 256-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Hyman
Keyword(s):  
School Finance ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Finance Reform ◽  
School Finance Reform ◽  
Funding Formula ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Proposal A ◽  
School Spending

This paper measures the effect of increased primary school spending on students' college enrollment and completion. Using student-level panel administrative data, I exploit variation in the school funding formula imposed by Michigan's 1994 school finance reform, Proposal A. Students exposed to $1,000 (10 percent) more spending were 3 percentage points (7 percent) more likely to enroll in college and 2.3 percentage points (11 percent) more likely to earn a postsecondary degree. The effects were concentrated among districts that were urban and suburban, lower poverty, and higher achieving at baseline. Districts targeted the marginal dollar toward schools serving less-poor populations within the district. (JEL H75, I21, I22, I28)

scholarly journals Indiana's Reward-for-Effort School Funding Formula: Issues and Options

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Theobald ◽  
Barry Bull ◽  
Nick Vesper
Keyword(s):  
School Funding ◽  
Funding Formula

scholarly journals The Rural/Nonrural Divide? K–12 District Spending and Implications of Equity-Based School Funding

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842098254
Author(s):  
Tasminda K. Dhaliwal ◽  
Paul Bruno
Keyword(s):  
School Finance ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Finance Reform ◽  
Funding Formula ◽  
Underserved Students ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
School Year ◽  
Local Control Funding Formula ◽  
K 12

In the 2013–2014 school year, the state of California implemented a new equity-minded funding system, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). LCFF increased minimum per-pupil funding for educationally underserved students and provided greater autonomy in allocating resources. We use the implementation of LCFF to enrich our understanding of rural school finance and explore the implications of equity-based school finance reform across urbanicity (i.e., between rural, town, suburban, and urban districts) and between rural areas of different remoteness. Drawing on 15 years of financial data from California school districts, we find variation in the funding levels of rural districts but few differences in the ways resources are allocated and only modest evidence of constrained spending in rural areas. Our results suggest that spending progressivity (i.e., spending advantage of higher-poverty districts) has increased since LCFF, although progressivity is lowest in rural districts by the end of the data panel.

scholarly journals Toward a Rich Data Future for School Finance Research

AERA Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 233285841988773
Author(s):  
Bruce D. Baker ◽  
Matthew M. Chingos
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
School Finance ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Special Topic ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
California Department ◽  
Funding Formula ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Local Control Funding Formula ◽  
Rich Data

This special topic is intended to advance research in school finance using two newly produced compilations of multiple longitudinal data systems, the School Finance Indicators Database ( http://schoolfinancedata.org/ ) and the Urban Institute, Education Data Explorer ( https://educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer/ ). This special topic contains two articles taking advantage of comprehensive longitudinal data on school finance. The first, by Victoria Sosina and Ericka Weathers, uses panel data from the School Finance Indicators Data System from 1999 to 2013 to evaluate whether and to what extent changes to Black-White and Latinx-White demographic differences among districts leads to greater resource disparity over time. The second article, by Knight and Mendoza, combines data from the Census Fiscal Survey with data from the California Department of Education to explore whether differences in data on and measures of school funding equity matter (i.e., lead to similar or different conclusions) when evaluating the effects of California’s 2013 adoption of the Local Control Funding Formula.

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