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Emily Rauscher; Greer Mellon; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The academic and economic benefits of school spending are well-established, but focusing on these outcomes may underestimate the full social benefits of school spending. Recent increases in U.S. child mortality are driven by injuries and raise questions about what types of social investments could reduce child deaths. We use close school district…
Descriptors: School Taxes, Expenditure per Student, Mortality Rate, Youth
Kreimer, Katie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The need for proper communication strategies during a bond or levy campaign has been a critical part of the tax referendum process. The intent of this study was to identify the best communication strategies used by superintendents during the three stages of a tax referendum. Planning a tax referendum, campaigning for a tax referendum, and then…
Descriptors: School Taxes, Bond Issues, Communication Strategies, School Districts
Stauffacher, Alan N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many school districts are in need of a successful plan of action for school district referendums. The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine the perceived effectiveness between factors and strategies surrounding referendums and the passage of those measures meant to improve school funding and facilities. The findings from Johnson and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Performance Factors, Voting
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Chappelow, Marsha; Reznikov, Kathleen – Journal of School Public Relations, 2007
After a failed tax levy in 2004, the Ladue School District in Missouri realized that it had to significantly change its communication methods. A new superintendent was hired in July 2004 to work with the Board of Education to reestablish relationships and increase effective communications with parents and community members. As such, we are the…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), School Community Relationship, Public Schools, School Districts
Kinder, Jack A. – American School Board Journal, 1992
An initiative petition passed in 1982 for a 1-cent sales tax accounted for between 13 and 15 percent of the total public school budget in Missouri as of the 1991-92 school year. Outlines the steps necessary to gather the necessary signatures from registered voters and to get the measure approved. (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Political Campaigns, Politics of Education, Public Schools
Olson, Gerald W.; And Others – 1973
This document evaluates the tax burden changes that occur as selected local service functions are shifted to State government. The primary emphasis is on the analysis of alternative systems on the residents of the two central cities of the standard metropolitan statistical area, Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. (NTIS)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Local Government
Biles, Brenda L.; Ward, James F. – 1981
Part of a series on state education finance, this manual is intended to help Missouri educators, legislators, and citizens understand school finance reform by providing them with an overview of Missouri's financial aid to public elementary and secondary schools and by exploring selected issues in financial equity in education. The first chapter…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
HIRSCH, WERNER Z.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THIS STUDY DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL SPILLOVERS, HAND-IN-HAND WITH A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE CONCEPTS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS ARISING FROM PUBLIC SUPPORT OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. EMPHASIS WAS ON WAYS IN WHICH SPILLOVERS MAY AFFECT LOCAL DECISION-MAKING. ABSTRACT CONCEPTS WERE DEVELOPED AND APPLIED TO…
Descriptors: Community Support, Decision Making Skills, Economics, Educational Finance
Missouri State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Jefferson City. – 1982
A study analyzed the component parts of existing formulae to distribute federal vocational monies to secondary level programs in Missouri. Among the areas examined were the relative weight of the factors influencing distribution of funds and the extent to which each factor contributes to the final array depicting the total distribution of federal…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Needs, Financial Support
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Alspaugh, John W. – Rural Educator, 2001
A study of the financing of 96 small rural K-8 and K-12 Missouri school districts found that it was more difficult to support small rural high schools than small rural elementary schools. Small K-12 districts could convert to K-8 districts and contract with adjoining districts to instruct their high school students. (TD)
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Hubbell, L. Kenneth; And Others – 1973
This study evaluates the tax burden changes that occur as two local service functions, welfare and education, are shifted to State government financing. An analysis of alternative methods of such financing is undertaken, and the effects of these methods on the residents of the two central cities of Kansas City standard metropolitan statistical…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform, Local Government
Fitzgibbon, James; And Others – 1971
The authors, after discussing the St. Louis school system and its financial history, survey both traditional and innovative construction finance alternatives that have been used across the country. These alternatives, which fall into two categories, include: (1) conventional financing through tax incomes including State and Federal aid, and (2)…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Educational Finance
Missouri State Dept. of Education, Jefferson City. – 1972
This report contains the findings and recommendations of a Missouri public school finance study conducted by the citizens of Missouri. It begins with an overview of the study, giving its organization, the procedures used, and a summary of recommendations. The report then presents separate sections corresponding to each of the following four major…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Programs, Elementary Schools
Bliss, Jim – 1986
State control over education appears to be increasing as a result of state efforts to develop specific programs in response to calls for educational excellence. Missouri's Excellence in Education Act of 1985 was just such an effort and was aimed particularly at improving teaching by attracting and retaining teachers of high quality. The act…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education