The Effect of Local Property Taxes and Administrative Costs on Student Achievement Scores: Evidence from New Jersey Public Schools

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Schoderbek ◽  
Yaw M. Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Achievement Scores ◽  
Administrative Costs

The Administrative Role in an Accountability Network: A Developmental Conceptualization

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 688-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Demoulin ◽  
Robbie Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Achievement Scores ◽  
Continuity Of Operations ◽  
Educational Expenditures ◽  
Accountability In Education ◽  
The Common

Americans have always viewed education as an instrument for the common good as well as for individual enhancement. Today, with chronically low student achievement scores, this view has been questioned by the populace. School leaders have come under close scrutiny concerning district and/or building operations Local citizens have not only called for teacher accountability in the classroom, but have also increased the accountability call for administration as they demand evidence of school excellence amidst increased property taxes. Although educators have received the brunt of the accountability exchanges, basically a function of increasing educational expenditures and decreasing student achievement scores, responsibility for educational success or failure does not rest solely on the shoulders of educators. Citizens need to acquire a true understanding of accountability and become part of an effective accountability network. The administration must then assume the critical role in establishing a workable accountability network to initiate continuity of operations leading to school success. The questions then become: (1) What is accountability in education? (2) What is an effective accountability network? (3) What leadership role does the principal play in the accountability process?

scholarly journals The Impact of Property Tax Equalization on Rural Property in Oklahoma

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
H. Evan Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Horizontal Equity ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Vertical Equity ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
The Impact

Public opinion surveys indicate that the local property tax is the least popular of all taxes paid by Americans, yet in almost every state such a tax is levied for the support of local government and/or public schools. The major economic argument against the property tax is its inequities — both vertical and horizontal. Several studies have focused on the vertical equity of property taxes in Oklahoma, but the question of horizontal equity remains unexplored. The research reported in this paper deals with the nature of horizontal inequities in the taxation of rural land in Oklahoma and with the impact of state-wide equalization on rural land values.

scholarly journals Colonial New Jersey's provincial fiscal structure, 1704–1775: spending obligations, revenue sources, and tax burdens during peace and war

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farley Grubb
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
Peace And War

I reconstitute the spending obligations and revenue sources of colonial New Jersey's provincial government for the years 1704 through 1775 from primary sources using forensic accounting techniques. I identify and analyze the methods for raising revenue to meet normal peacetime and emergency wartime expenses. I calculate the provincial tax burdens imposed on New Jersey's citizens. I identify how Britain interfered with New Jersey's fiscal structure. I estimate what the revenues and tax burdens would have been without this interference. New Jersey paid for war expenses by issuing bills of credit, spreading the tax burden of redeeming these bills into the future. New Jersey paid its yearly administrative costs with current property taxes and with current interest earnings from loaning paper money. In the absence of British interference and wars, New Jersey could have driven tax burdens to zero by using interest earnings to pay for all its provincial administrative costs.

Highlighted & Underlined

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Difference

Students are unable to discern the difference between real and fake news, according to Stanford University study. Bilingual education is on an upswing, thanks to new vote in California. PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools reported that a plurality of Americans supported raising local property taxes to support their community’s public schools.

scholarly journals Community Schools and the Role of University-School-Community Collaboration

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Teresa Provinzano ◽  
Ryan Riley ◽  
Bruce Levine ◽  
Allen Grant
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
School Employees ◽  
Community Transformation ◽  
Structural Inequities

Public school districts are locally controlled and funded through local property taxes. Funding schools this way perpetuates structural inequities in poorer school districts and as a result, students living in poverty have minimal access to critical resources that support student learning. Community schools are resurfacing in many of these urban spaces as a mechanism for addressing the systemic and structural inequities plaguing students, schools, and communities. Advocates posit that increasing student achievement requires addressing the needs of the whole child; conceptualizing schooling through this lens offers an expanded vision of what public education needs to be for many of today’s children. This paper aims to improve our overall understanding of community schools and highlights specific actions taken by community organizations and higher education institutions to create meaningful partnerships with public schools operating as community schools. The authors posit that collaborative and organically developed, grassroots relationships have the potential to alter the traditional dynamic between internal public school employees and external stakeholders, leading to school, student, and community transformation.

The Relation between Business Property Values and Local Property Taxes

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly G. Key ◽  
Teresa A. Lightner
Keyword(s):  
Property Values ◽  
Local Property ◽  
Property Taxes ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Business Taxes ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Capital Tax ◽  
Business Property

ABSTRACT This study examines the relation between commercial and industrial property values and local property taxes using 1999 to 2009 data for the state of Georgia. Results show a negative relation between commercial values and property taxes, consistent with the new view of capital tax prediction that these taxes are borne, at least in part, by property owners. Incidence estimates show very high to full capitalization. There is little evidence of a relation between industrial property values and property taxes, contrary to prior research. This study is the first to provide empirical evidence of differences in commercial and industrial property tax incidence. The study contributes to the understanding of the capitalization of business taxes, which has been the subject of very little prior research. The results can inform policymakers who consider trade-offs in tax revenue needs, economic development, and issues of fairness in their localities.

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