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Roza, Marguerite; Hagan, Katherine; Anderson, Laura – Grantee Submission, 2020
School districts increasingly rely on weighted student funding (WSF), yet there is little research on this allocation model. This study collects more than 70 measures on each of 19 districts using WSF in 2018 for a landscape analysis of formula features and implementation practices. While districts report common reasons for adopting WSF (equity,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, School Districts, Resource Allocation
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Roza, Marguerite; Hill, Paul Thomas – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2004
School district budgets typically hide as much as they reveal. Superintendents are finding this as they discover huge deficits that nobody saw coming. District budgets are opaque by design, and they often mask important facts about resource allocation within a district, as well as about total spending. This paper reports the results of an original…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Educational Finance, Collective Bargaining, Resource Allocation