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Peternick, Lauri; Sherman, Joel D.; Guarnera, John – Journal of Education Finance, 1999
Reviews Ohio's data-collection process and makes recommendations for developing a school-level data-collection system that gives stakeholders a clearer picture of resource-allocation/utilization patterns and of school operations' adequacy and efficiency. Various process and methodological issues must be tackled before instituting such systems. (35…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Educational Equity (Finance)
Isaacs, Julia B.; Garet, Michael S.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1996
Relatively little is known about private school finance in the United States. Since this lack of data impoverishes educational policy discussions that compare public and private schools, a strategy, was developed to collect finance data from private schools. High-quality data can be used to determine the total amount spent on elementary and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Equity (Finance)
Isaacs, Julia B.; Garet, Michael S.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1997
Data on private school finance are not available to inform educational policy discussions about private education. Because of interest in private school finances, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contracted with the Pelavin Research Center of the American Institutes for Research to explore the feasibility of collecting data…
Descriptors: Budgets, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Isaacs, Julia B.; Garet, Michael S.; Sherman, Joel D.; Cullen, Andrew; Phelps, Richard – 1999
This report discusses the possibility of expanding the resource and finance data to be collected as part of the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The proposal under consideration, which is being field tested in the fall of 1998 and winter of 1999, has two major components. The…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Isaacs, Julia B.; Best, Clayton M.; Cullen, Andrew D.; Garet, Michael S.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1998
Data are not available to inform education policy discussion regarding how resources are allocated both within and among schools. This study was conducted to develop and pilot test a questionnaire that would collect school-level expenditure data. This report describes the three site visits and focus group conducted for this project, findings from…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Garet, Michael S.; Chan, Tsze H.; Isaacs, Julia B.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1997
Although policy makers have expressed interest in expenditures by private elementary and secondary schools, nationally representative data in this area are not available. In the absence of expenditure data it may nevertheless be possible to derive national estimates of total expenditures by private schools indirectly, by using the information that…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education