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Dan Goldhaber; Zeyu Xu – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Education resources matter when they are allocated and used effectively. Yet, the upstream decisions school boards make about district budgets and resource allocation are understudied. In this descriptive study, we analyze data from 400 publicly available video recordings of financial deliberations in school board budget meetings between spring…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Training, Resource Allocation, Educational Resources
Ben Backes; Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Cory Koedel; Shawn Ni; Michael Podgursky; P. Brett Xiang; Zeyu Xu – Grantee Submission, 2016
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative microdata from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities--effectively debt--owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49 state…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Resource Allocation
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Ben Backes; Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout; Cory Koedel; Shawn Ni; Michael Podgursky; P. Brett Xiang; Zeyu Xu – Educational Researcher, 2016
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative microdata from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities--effectively debt--owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49 state…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Resource Allocation