The Distribution of School Spending Impacts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kirabo Jackson ◽  
Claire Mackevicius
Keyword(s):  
School Spending

Determinants of local school spending: Some consistent estimates

Public Choice ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Denzau ◽  
Kevin Grier
Keyword(s):  
Local School ◽  
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 Lifting All Boats? Finance Litigation, Education Resources, and Student Needs in the Post-Rose Era

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Sims
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Transition Point ◽  
Resource Distribution ◽  
Education Finance ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
School Spending

Rose v. Council for Better Education (1989) is often considered a transition point in education finance litigation, heralding an era of increasing concern for measurable adequacy of education across a broad spectrum of student needs. Prior research suggests that post-Rose lawsuits had less effect on the distribution of school spending than older litigation. This article suggests that this focus on the raw resource distribution masks the important effect of contemporary lawsuits in redistributing money to districts with greater student needs. My findings suggest that a successful lawsuit does raise revenues to a variety of districts but provides more money to those districts with higher plausible indications of student needs.

A National Study of School Spending and House Prices

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Bayer ◽  
Peter Q.. Blair ◽  
Kenneth Whaley
Keyword(s):  
House Prices ◽  
National Study ◽  
School Spending
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