Author: Phillip E. VincentPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Fiscal Responses of School Districts
Author: Phillip E. VincentPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Fiscal Response of School Districts to District Fiscal Capacity and State Aid
Author: E. Kathleen AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Government aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Analysis of Fiscal Response of School Districts to the State Aid Formula in Colorado
Author: Esther Kathleen AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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School Finance Reforms and Big-city Fiscal Problems
Author: Phillip E. VincentPublisher:
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Category : Urban schools
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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School District Responses to Fiscal Constraints
Author: Helen F. LaddPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This paper examines how schools districts have responded to fiscal constraints in the past to gain insight into how they might respond in the future. It uses cross sectional data for Texas and New York first to develop a measure of the fiscal condition of each district and, second, to examine the choices made by school districts facing differing degrees of fiscal pressure. I conclude that districts respond to fiscal constraint by trying to protect the level of instructional spending, that central administration spending and staffing appear to be a luxury that is more affordable for districts in strong fiscal condition, and that spending on capital outlays is more responsive than other categories to a district's fiscal condition. Annual shortfalls in capital spending and maintenance in response to an extended period of fiscal constraint are likely to leave some districts with serious deficiencies in their capital facilities.
An Analysis of Potential Additional Measures of Fiscal Capacity of South Dakota School Districts
Author: Phillip E. VincentPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Fiscal Response and School Finance Simulations
Author: E. Kathleen AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Analyses and Comparison of Fiscal Response in Four States
Author: E. Kathleen AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The study deals with the interaction of economic incentives in school aid programs with decision-making processes in Colorado, Wisconsin, Kansas and Maryland school districts.
School Districts' Perspectives on the Economic Stimulus Package
Author: Caitlin ScottPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The information in this report is drawn from the responses of a nationally representative sample of school districts to a broader Center on Education Policy (CEP) survey on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) administered in the spring of 2010. Survey responses were weighted to draw conclusions for all districts in the 50 states based on this representative sample. This is CEP's third report on ARRA. The first, released in December 2009, focuses on state-level implementation. The second, published in July 2010, describes school districts' use of State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) grants and the supplemental funding provided by ARRA for the Title I program and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The second report contains additional information about districts' use of SFSF grants to provide supports and interventions to turn around low-performing schools; this activity is one of four reforms that states and districts must address to receive SFSF funding. Appended are: (1) Study Methods; (2) General Information about Confidence Intervals and Statistical Significance; and (3) Confidence Intervals for Survey Responses. (Contains 2 tables, 3 figures, 2 exhibits and 1 footnote.).
The Neglected Role of School District Revenue Instability
Author: Rekha BaluPublisher: Stanford University
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Much of the school finance literature has focused on the distribution or equality of resources across school districts. Such literature compares levels of spending between school districts or states. But it has ignored the variability and unpredictability of those revenues within school districts over time. Meanwhile, public finance literature has focused on states or counties, and disregarded school districts as a unit of analysis for responses to fiscal stress. This dissertation addresses these gaps. First, drawing from techniques both within and outside of public finance, I contribute a new measure of fiscal stress based on unpredictability of state revenues. Second, I explicitly assess policy and tax mechanisms that may aggravate revenue instability for school districts and to what extent instability changes over time. Finally, I examine school districts response to chronic unpredictability in state revenues. Despite states' increasing reliance on more volatile sales and income taxes to fund public education, I find that unpredictability in state revenues to districts has declined by one-fourth of a standard deviation over time. In states that shifted to the more volatile sales and income tax base while also centralizing school finance as part of efforts to equalize school funding, unpredictability in state revenues to districts declined by a full standard deviation. In effect, centralization and more equal distribution of funding appears to trump the effects of a volatile tax base, as states have a greater ability to buffer against shocks than local education agencies do. Yet districts still face uncertain and unstable revenues from the states, aggravated by economic downturns. With primary and secondary data, I study the case of California where districts face uncertain cuts to their allocations during the year and between years. I use three key fiscal health measures: average revenue instability over time, whether revenues declined in the prior period, and the experience of the budget officer. I find that highly unstable districts are more likely to raise local revenues, but that cost-cutting is more prevalent that revenue-raising. Experienced budget officers use a greater variety of policy instruments to cope with instability, pointing to the under-explored role of management in the fiscal health of a district. These findings as a whole suggest that revenue instability merits further attention in the school finance literature in particular and public management in general. Unpredictability in states revenues is a phenomenon that concerns school districts, one that changes over time, but one to which they may adapt.