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Emily Rauscher; Greer Mellon; Susanna Loeb; Carolyn Abott – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Targeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school funding election. We use close tax elections in 9 states…
Descriptors: School District Spending, Financial Support, School Funds, Outcomes of Education
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Despite massive cuts in state funding over the past thirty years, the University of California has managed to keep enrollment on pace with growth in population. With California's population projected to grow 22.5 percent (from 40 to 49 million by 2040), that will no longer be the case, unless UC is able to find a new funding model. Informed by the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, Financial Support, Tuition
Frank, Stephen; Travers, Jonathan – Education Resource Strategies, 2007
In the fall of 2006, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the Unified Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that called for a third-party research firm to analyze resource use across the Los Angeles school system. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was chosen to conduct this analysis. The study was…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation