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The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois
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Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. – Journal of Education Finance, 2012
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school closure decisions from 1986 through 2006. Our dataset combines information from a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Taxes, School Closing, Expenditure per Student, Robustness (Statistics)