Author: Institute for Wisconsin's Future
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Paul M. Goldfinger
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Howard Wial
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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The Pennsylvania legislature is considering a school finance proposal, exemplified by House Bill 113 of the 2003 legislative session, that would shift some school funding away from local property taxes and toward state funds and local income taxes. The proposal would give greater proportional benefits to homeowners with lower property values. A shift toward broader-based and less regressive tax funding of the public schools would be admirable, as would the progressive nature of the proposed property tax relief. However, the proposal has two harmful features: (1) It would do virtually nothing to change the total revenue available to any school district in the state, but would simply replace some revenue that each district currently raises from local property taxes with revenue from local income taxes and additional state funds. In so doing, it would perpetuate Pennsylvania's current, highly inequitable pattern of school funding; and (2) It would impose a limit on increases in school tax rates in each district and prevent districts from obtaining additional revenue from new taxes. A district would be able to override these limits through voter approval in a referendum.One source of evidence is the research literature on outcomes in other states that have imposed limits on school taxes and funding. Although the details of limits imposed vary from state to state and no separate research analyzes proposals exactly like the Pennsylvania proposal, the literature on other states that have imposed limits is the best available gauge of the impact of a similar Pennsylvania proposal. This briefing paper reviews this research literature. (Contains 22 endnotes.).

Author: Arthur J. Townley
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
ISBN: 9780757515842
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Paul M. Goldfinger
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Marsha Gronseth
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Elizabeth Plummer
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In 1993, Texas established a maximum 1.5 percent property tax rate that school districts could impose for purposes of funding their maintenance and operations (M&O). Tax limits are intended to contain government growth and increase the efficiency of government services. Almost all states use property tax limits, and their use continues to increase as states consider ways to decrease the growth in property taxes. This study examines whether the 1.5 percent rate limit lowered the growth of M&O tax revenues and school expenditures, whether these effects differed in the short run vs. long run, and whether school districts increased other tax and non tax revenue sources to help compensate for lower M&O tax revenues. This study also examines whether the rate limit affected student performance. We use a sample of 1,033 Texas school districts over the period 1994 through 2004, and the Heckman MLE approach to help control for selection bias. We find that the 1.5 percent rate limit decreased the growth of M&O tax revenues and school expenditures, and that expenditures were affected less than M&O tax revenues. Our results suggest that districts helped cushion the rate limit's effect on expenditures by increasing their debt related tax revenues. We find only limited evidence that the rate limit's effects differed in the short-run vs. long run. Finally, we find that student test scores are lower for districts at the 1.5 percent rate limit, and that the decrease in test scores is larger for economically disadvantaged students relative to other students. This suggests that the rate limit is associated with decreases in education quality.

Author: United States. Office of Education. National survey of school finance
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Leilani Aguinaldo
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ISBN: 9781090619426
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Languages : en
Pages : 181

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California public school finance started a new era with the introduction of the Local Control Funding Formula for the 2013-14 fiscal year, and everything we thought we knew about our old revenue limit and program-based funding model started to fade into obsolescence. The unfolding story of this transition is newly told in the new 2019 edition of the new book, School Funding and Accountability in California--A Guide to School Finance.For more than 30 years, School Services of California, Inc., (SSC) has published the definitive guide to California school finance, Revenues and Revenue Limits, and in that tradition SSC now offers a totally revised text incorporating complete information about California's new, ground-breaking funding formula and its companion accountability plan. The 2019 edition of School Funding and Accountability in California--A Guide to School Finance will be an indispensable for anyone needing to understand the way public schools receive their resources, how state support for schools is determined and the linage of that funding with accountability for new and improved services.Since 1981, SSC's books on school finance have helped tens of thousands of people understand everything from the basics to the intricacies of California's unique school finance system. Detailed enough to be of use to the most experienced readers, yet clear enough for the newcomers to the field, the 2019 edition of School Funding and Accountability in California--A Guide to School Finance will be invaluable to everyone interested in California school finance.

Author: Jack W. Osman
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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