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Walters, Donald L. – 1986
This paper discusses selected techniques for measuring equity in a state school finance system and focuses on the distribution of fiscal outcomes among school districts in Pennsylvania. Measures of dispersion, measures of relationship, and winners-losers ratios are demonstrated with data from a small sample of school districts. Data from a…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDowning, Roger H.; And Others – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Pennsylvania's mathematical modeling technique to evaluate tax reform proposals requires the following data: personal income at the local level and measures of the breakdown of property tax payment by land use classification. The simulation technique could be readily adapted in reorganizing educational finance systems. (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Peer reviewedKuriloff, Peter J. – Economics of Education Review, 1985
Explores the association of district enrollment, minority enrollment, wealth, poverty level, fiscal capacity, and tax effort with changes in the distribution of Pennsylvania's federal aid due to implementation of Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act. Examines the law's effect on paperwork, local control, and encouragement…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Categorical Aid, Demography, Economic Status
