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Odle, Taylor K. – Grantee Submission, 2021
System governing boards fulfill roles as both regulators and protectors for their multiple constituent campuses. While centralized control provides many benefits to institutional members, such advantages are also be accompanied by limitations upon campuses to pursue expanded missions, fully compete, and spend according to individual rather than…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Finance, Expenditures, Compensation (Remuneration)
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
Rothstein, Jesse; Whitmore Schanzenbach, Diane – Grantee Submission, 2022
Card and Krueger (1992a,b) used labor market outcomes to study the productivity of school spending. Following their lead, we examine effects of post-1990 school finance reforms on students' educational attainment and labor market outcomes. Using a state-by-cohort panel design, we find that reforms increased high school completion and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Educational Change, High School Graduates, College Attendance