scholarly journals Measuring School Efficiency and Effectiveness to Inform the Design of a School Funding Formula

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (S1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
William Gort ◽  
Rebecca King ◽  
Alan Weiss
Keyword(s):  
School Funding ◽  
School Efficiency ◽  
Funding Formula ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

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)

The Intersection between School Efficiency and Student Individual Differences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shero ◽  
Sara Ann Hart
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
School Level ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Lower Efficiency ◽  
School Efficiency ◽  
School Year

School funding literature centers largely around how spending impacts student performance, but rarely examines how efficiently that spending takes place. This paper used Data Envelopment Analysis, to examine how efficiently Florida elementary schools spent funds to produce student gains in reading, finding that schools (n=1,446) performed on average at a 61% relative efficiency level for the 2009-2010 school year. Next, this paper examined the predictability of these efficiency scores, finding several demographic variables to be significant predictors of school-level efficiency. Finally, this paper used data from n=677,386 Florida public elementary students to measure the relation between these efficiency scores and student individual differences, finding the negative impact of students having an exceptionality to be larger in lower efficiency schools.

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.

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