Download or read book An Equity Analysis of the Pennsylvania School Finance System 1975 1981 written by Martha Bouknight Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educational Equity Adequacy and Equal Opportunity in the Commonwealth written by Bruce Baker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pennsylvania has historically operated one of the nation's least equitable state school finance systems, and within that system exist some of the nation's most fiscally disadvantaged public school districts. The persistent inequalities of Pennsylvania's school finance system are not entirely a result of simple lack of effort, as policies intended to mitigate inequities serve in some cases to exacerbate them. This report provides an overview of the state of school funding in Pennsylvania, a review of current conceptions of educational equity, adequacy and equal opportunity, empirical methods for measuring education costs, current policies across states and recent reforms. The review is organized in three chapters. The first summarizes the current status of the school funding system and student outcomes in Pennsylvania. The second outlines conceptions of equity, adequacy and equal educational opportunity and provides an overview and critique of methods for measuring educational adequacy and informing state school finance policy. The report concludes with an overview of the current landscape of school finance policy, and the intersection between emerging evidence on education costs and state school finance policy design. Appended are: (1) Data Sources; (2) Adjustment Factors in BEF; (3) Pennsylvania Confirmatory Analysis; (4) All States Adjusted NAEP Comparisons; (5) Correlations between Traditional Equity and Neutrality Indicators and Funding Fairness Indicators; (6) Fiscal Neutrality Coefficients; (7) Fixed and Random Effects Models of Gaps and Outcomes; (8) Bridging Pennsylvania State Assessments and SAT College Readiness Benchmarks; (9) Economies of Scale in Education; (10) New York Reforms; and (11) Rhode Island Numbers Games.

Download or read book A Longitudinal Analysis of the Equity of Public School Funding in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Richard Berton Hiller and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Overview of the Pennsylvania Education Finance System written by Stephen Brophy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Measures of Wealth in Pennsylvania written by Kenneth J. Dady and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The measure of district wealth used by a state is a critical factor in reducing the potential extremes in available resources that may occur across districts. To be effective, the state definition of wealth should correlate closely with the local tax structure that is available to school districts to raise local revenues. Conversely, if wealth is measured improperly, state aid could be distributed in ways that create or exacerbate disparities in per pupil spending. The purpose of this study is to identify measures of wealth that are feasible for state school finance systems and examine the impact of alternative definitions of wealth on distribution of state aid to school districts and on the fiscal equity in the school finance system. Pennsylvania and its 500 school districts were used to illustrate the possible measures of wealth and to test their potential application in practice. Pennsylvania conducted a costing out study that changed the formula that was used to distribute state funding to schools. Equity measures from this study illustrate that the concept of equity based on equal spending is outdated in pa. The objective of the current system of funding in Pennsylvania is to achieve adequacy. The adequacy target established for each district has identified a figure that the state determines to be the amount it takes for districts to achieve similar results. The system does not focus on equalizing spending as much as it is focusing on equalizing outcomes. Wealth measures used in the mvpi ar now have little impact on funding in pa. The findings of this study indicate that even when relying on the wealth measure that produces the most favorable funding outcome for each district, the change in funding in those simulations were minimal. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest llc. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Webpage: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.].

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pennsylvania School Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools (PARSS) filed suit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1991 claiming that the legislature failed in providing a "thorough and efficient" system of education. Their claim was based solely upon disparities in expenditures between school districts. The court noted that all matters dealing with school finance are political matters and therefore are in the jurisdiction of the legislature. The constitutionality of the Pennsylvania school finance system was challenged once before and was heard before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In this case, plaintiffs sought equalized funding across school districts. The court ruled that it was unable to judicially define what constituted a "normal program of educational services."

Download or read book The Measurement of Equity in School Finance written by Robert Berne and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Search for Equity in School Finance written by Stephen J. Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Governor s Advisory Commission on Public School Finance written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Advisory Commission on Public School Finance and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Public Education in Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania State Education Association. Committee on Survey of School Costs and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-03-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?

Download or read book An Analysis of Wisconsin s State School Financing System Using the Need Capacity Gap Approach written by Ilyong Cheong and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spending on K-12 education across the United States and across local school districts has long been characterized by great disparitiesâ€"disparities that reflect differences in property wealth and tax rates. For more than a quarter-century, reformers have attempted to reduce these differences through court challenges and legislative action. As part of a broad study of education finance, the committee commissioned eight papers examining the history and consequences of school finance reform undertaken in the name of equity and adequacy. This thought-provoking, timely collection of papers explores such topics as: What do the terms "equity" and "adequacy" in school finance really mean? How are these terms relevant to the politics and litigation of school finance reform? What is the impact of court-ordered school finance reform on spending disparities? How do school districts use money from finance reform? What policy options are available to states facing new challenges from court decisions mandating adequacy in school finance? When measuring adequacy, how do you consider differences in student needs and regional costs?