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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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Pas, Elise T.; Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah; Alfonso, Yira Natalia; Bradshaw, Catherine P. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study leveraged data from a 40-school randomized controlled trial to understand the cost of coaching to support implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs) through a multi-tiered system of supports for behavior (MTSS-B) model. Coach activity log data were utilized to generate the annual average, per school, costs of coaching of $8,198.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Evidence Based Practice, Adoption (Ideas), Program Implementation
Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2019
Over the past 25 years, a small but growing number of school districts have implemented weighted student funding (WSF) systems as a way to increase school-level autonomy and more equitably distribute resources among schools. In these districts, which are predominantly large urban school systems, education leaders have implemented policies that…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Institutional Autonomy, School Districts, Educational Finance
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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
Breslin, Janice – 1986
Trends in Maryland's support of higher education during fiscal years 1976 to 1985 are reported, along with comparisons to other states. Attention is also directed to shifts in the distribution of state appropriations among the various segments of higher education and key trends in expenditure patterns at the four-year public institutions. It is…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
Frank, Stephen; Feinberg, Randi – Education Resource Strategies, 2008
In this paper, a companion piece to "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools" (ED544382), the authors analyze small high school spending in three urban districts--Baltimore City, Boston, and Chicago--to understand whether it is higher than in larger schools; if it is, why it is different; and the policy…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Case Studies, Small Schools, Academic Achievement