The influence of the partisanship and composition of state governments on public school spending and student outcomes in the NCLB era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woonghwan An
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
State Governments ◽  
School Spending

scholarly journals The Great Recession and Public Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
William N. Evans ◽  
Robert M. Schwab ◽  
Kathryn L. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
State Governments ◽  
School Employees ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Education Finance ◽  
Work First ◽  
School Spending

We examine the impact of the Great Recession on public education finance and employment. Five major themes emerge from our work. First, nearly 300,000 school employees lost their jobs. Second, schools that were heavily dependent financially on state governments were particularly vulnerable to the recession. Third, local revenues from the property tax actually increased during the recession, primarily because millage rates rose in response to declining property values. Fourth, inequality in school spending rose sharply during the Great Recession. We argue, however, that we need to be very cautious about this result. School spending inequality has risen steadily since 2000; the trend in inequality we see in the 2008–13 period is very similar to the trend we see in the 2000–08 period. Fifth, the federal government's efforts to shield education from some of the worst effects of the recession achieved their major goal.

scholarly journals Symposium on Primary and Secondary Education

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francine D Blau
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Productive Efficiency ◽  
Financing Structure ◽  
Primary And Secondary Education ◽  
Considerable Controversy

This article introduces the ‘Symposium on Primary and Secondary Education.’ It points out that considerable controversy surrounds the issues treated by the articles in the symposium: the effect of the level of resources invested in education on student outcomes, and the educational financing structure that would optimize desirable outcomes of the system, including allocative and productive efficiency and equity. Given rising wage inequality in the labor market associated with increasing demands for skill, concerns over slow U.S. productivity growth, and burgeoning public school enrollments, resolving these issues has become increasingly important.

The Poverty Gap in School Spending Following the Introduction of Title I

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth U Cascio ◽  
Sarah Reber
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Regional Convergence ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
Us History ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
Education Act ◽  
K 12 ◽  
First Time ◽  
School Spending

Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act explicitly directed more federal aid for K-12 education to poorer areas for the first time in US history, with a goal of promoting regional convergence in school spending. Using newly collected data, we find some evidence that Title I narrowed the gap in per-pupil school spending between richer and poorer states in the short- to medium-run. However, the program was small relative to then-existing poverty gaps in school spending; even in the absence of crowd-out by local or state governments, the program could have reduced the gap by only 15 percent.

scholarly journals Reducing Inequality through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rucker C. Johnson ◽  
C. Kirabo Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Adult Outcomes ◽  
Educational Investments ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Poor Children ◽  
Cycle Of Poverty ◽  
School Spending

We compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in Head Start and K–12 spending, depending on place and year of birth. IV and sibling-difference estimates indicate that, for poor children, these policies both increased educational attainment and earnings, and reduced poverty and incarceration. The benefits of Head Start were larger when followed by access to better-funded schools, and increases in K–12 spending were more efficacious when preceded by Head Start exposure. The findings suggest dynamic complementarities, implying that early educational investments that are sustained may break the cycle of poverty. (JEL H52, H75, I21, I26, I28, I32, I38)

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