Download or read book The Relationship Between Per Pupil Spending and Student Achievement in Sussex County New Jersey written by William Kochis and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past several decades, school funding in New Jersey has been through multiple reforms in attempts to provide districts with enough funding to offer students a thorough and efficient education. The most recent funding formula adjustment has led, and may continue to lead, to significant funding decreases for the majority of Sussex County, New Jersey. With schools forced to budgetary cuts, the question becomes how much money is necessary for schools to provide an education and does more money equate to higher student achievement? The current study did not put forward any hypotheses but did attempt to find the relationships between student achievement and total spending per pupil while considering other variables such as District Factor Groups as well as school enrollment. To address these research questions, the quantitative approach was deemed the best approach to the study, since it allowed the researcher to investigate the relationship between the data points. (ProQuest abstract).
Download or read book A Quantitative Study of Per Pupil Expenditures Spending in Relation to Adequacy Budget and SAT Scores in New Jersey High Schools written by Monica S. Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School funding in the State of New Jersey has a long history of judicial and legislative reform efforts. In 2008, a weighted and adjusted formula was approved to determine how much state aid each district would receive on an annual basis. Recent changes to state aid have underscored the fragility of the funding system. Those who make decisions regarding how much spending is adequate to ensure thorough and efficient education need quantitative data to support changes. The purpose of this line of inquiry was to examine how the measures of per pupil expenditures and spending, as compared to what is considered adequate, relate to student achievement in New Jersey (NJ) high schools. In other words, does money matter in NJ schools? There have been research studies on related topics; however, these questions have been largely unanswered, given the context of the current political and economic landscape in NJ. This study examined the relationship between student achievement and two different measures of educational funding in the state of New Jersey: (1) per pupil expenditures and the (2) state's adequacy budget. There is a lack of quantitative data supporting the use of these spending measures as benchmarks or guides to support financial decision making. A multiple regression found that there was no statistically significant relationship between per pupil expenditures and student achievement on the SATs after adjusting for district factor groups. Thus, per pupil expenditures are not a reliable measure of how much money districts should spend. A one-way ANOVA found a statistically significant difference in the means of adequacy budget ratios (spending/NJ's adequacy budget calculation) groups when compared to achievement on the SATs. Districts with "over-adequate" spending had higher average SAT scores, while districts with "below-adequate" spending had lower average SAT scores. This study found that NJ's adequacy budget calculation can be relied on to determine how much spending is necessary at the district level. (ProQuest abstract).
Download or read book A Study of Sources of Revenue for Public Education in New Jersey written by Simon Motter Horstick and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Per Pupil Expenditure and Student Achievement in Virginia Public Schools written by Elizabeth N. Shupe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislators, policymakers, and educators rely on empirical evidence from research to make financial decisions regarding education funding. The purpose of this study was to examine the expenditures of the school districts in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the period of 2007 to 2017 and to determine what effect the level of expenditures had, if any, on student achievement at the state, region, and district level. The researcher found a negative correlation trend between per pupil expenditure and average Standards of Learning pass rate for students in Virginia, for students in the 19 school districts of Region VII in Virginia, and also for the students in a small rural district in Virginia. The researcher concluded that per pupil expenditure alone was not an accurate predictor of student achievement and that the socioeconomic status or poverty level of the student was a more reliable predictor of performance on SOL pass rate.
Download or read book Public School Spending and Student Achievement The Case of New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cato Institute, a public policy research foundation in Washington, D.C., presents the full text of an article entitled "Public School Spending and Student Achievement: The Case of New Jersey," written by Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff. The article was published in the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of "The Cato Journal." The authors review related legal proceedings and use data from New Jersey public school districts to evaluate the effect of increased educational expenditures on student achievement. A downloadable version of the article in PDF format is available.
Download or read book The Relationship Between Per Pupil Spending and Academic Achievement of Secondary Students in New York State written by Marsha Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book District level Spending and Student Achievement in New Jersey s Public Schools written by James Arthur Crisfield and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Per pupil Expenditures and Achievement written by Jessica Dale Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Expenditure Per Pupil and Achievement in English written by Dean Ellsworth Fritze and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Success in School Finance Litigation written by Margaret E. Goertz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education finance policy in New Jersey has been shaped by over 30 years of school finance litigation. Through its decisions in "Robinson v. Cahill" (1973-1976) and "Abbott v. Burke" (1985-2005), the justices of New Jersey's supreme court have defined the state's constitutional guarantee of a "thorough and efficient" education, set parameters for how the state's urban schools should be funded, and provided guidance on how education dollars should be spent in these communities (the so-called Abbott districts). In January 2008, the legislature enacted a new funding formula, the School Finance Reform Act of 2008, which jettisons the court's remedies. The court upheld the constitutionality of this law in its 20th "Abbott" ruling issued in May 2009. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of court-mandated school finance reform in New Jersey and describe the School Finance Reform Act (SFRA) of 2008 and its potential impact. The first section of this paper provides the demographic and economic context for education policy in New Jersey. The second and third sections describe how the court has defined educational "success" or "adequacy" over the last 30 years and how New Jersey measures an adequate education. The fourth section looks at the impact of school finance reform on education spending, taxation, and student achievement. The fifth section describes SFRA and its impact and the most recent round of litigation. Appended are: (1) Regular Education Budget per Pupil, Districts Grouped by Property Wealth per Pupil, 1975-76 through 2007-08, CPI Adjusted; (2) Regular Education Budget per Pupil, Districts Grouped by Property Wealth per Pupil, 1984-85 through 2007-08, Abbott Districts Separated, CPI Adjusted; and (3) School Tax Rates, Districts Grouped by Property Wealth per Pupil, 1984-85 through 2007-08, Abbott Districts Separated, CPI Adjusted. (Contains 6 figures, 7 tables and 17 footnotes.).
Download or read book Examination of School Expenditures Student Achievement and District Size in New Jersey Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve School Districts written by Brian F. Savage and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Per Pupil Expenditures on Student Achievement written by Jeffrey Louis Adams and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Per Pupil Expenditure SES District Type as Correlated to the Academic Achievement of Pennsylvania Eighth Grade Students PSSA Reading and Math Results written by Orvale M. Fissel (III.) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Elementary School District Instructional Expenditure Per Pupil and Academic Achievement written by Daphan Alsup Fox and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is Money the Answer written by Kelly E. McGowan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship of School Spending and Student Academic Achievement when Achievement is Measured by Value added Scores written by Dengke Xu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Student Achievement written by Christopher Andrew Candelaria and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across three papers, I reevaluate the roles that teacher quality and court-ordered school finance reform have in improving student achievement. In the first paper, I examine the extent to which teachers have longer-term effects on student achievement using administrative data from Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS). I define longer-term effects as the effects teachers have on student achievement in the years after they teach their students. Using a flexible statistical model, I obtain teacher-specific short-term and longer-term effects. I also estimate the extent to which short-term and longer-term effects relate to one another, on average. Results suggest that there is meaningful variation in teacher longer-term effects. I also find that short-term and longer-term effects are not perfectly correlated with each other. Finally, I find that having a master's degree or Ph. D. is associated with higher longer-term effects when estimating the model for math teachers. In the second paper, I assess the validity and stability of short-term and longer-term teacher effect estimates. I assess validity by examining whether future teachers predict the past test score gains of students they have not yet taught. This particular test is designed to provide evidence of student sorting bias that could potentially invalidate the teacher effect estimates. I then assess the stability of teacher effect estimates by considering the stability of teacher effects across different cohorts of students and the stability of teacher effects across math and English language arts within a given cohort of students. Results show that teacher effect estimates suffer from sorting bias. Although this is problematic, it suggests the need to understand whether the sorting bias is large enough to invalidate teacher effect estimates; this is an area of future research. With respect to stability, there is substantive overlap of teacher effects--both short-term and longer-term--across student cohorts, which suggests that the estimates carry some true signal of teacher quality and are reliable. Overlap of teacher effects across subjects is also non-trivial, but it is less stable the across cohort stability. These results suggest that teachers have different strengths in different subjects. In the third paper, Kenneth Shores and I provide new evidence about the effect of court-ordered finance reform on per-pupil revenues and graduation rates. We account for cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity in the treated and counterfactual groups to estimate the effect of overturning a state's finance system. Seven years after reform, the highest poverty quartile in a treated state experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per-pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates. We subject the model to various sensitivity tests. In most cases, point estimates for graduation rates are within 2 percentage points of our preferred model.
