Recent advancements in education finance and policy

The past decade has seen a steady flow of important and innovative papers documenting the short- and long-term effects of finance reforms and the heterogeneity of the effects of reforms, exemplified by papers like Jackson, Johnson, & Persico (2016), Lafortune, Rothstein, & Schanzenbach (2018...

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Other Authors Downes, Thomas A. (Editor), Killeen, Kieran M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2022]
SeriesResearch in education fiscal policy and practice.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602568
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-068-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 456 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Impact of downturns on school finance
  • Chapter 1. Federal stimulus aid and school finance: Lessons from the Great Recession / J. Cameron Anglum, Kenneth Shores, and Matthew P. Steinberg
  • Chapter 2. Impacts of the Great Recession on public and private preschool enrollment / Kathryn E. Gonzalez and Emily C. Hanno
  • Chapter 3. Cutting back state aid to school districts in the COVID era: Consequences for racial funding equity in new york state / Michah W. Rothbart
  • Chapter 4. Covid-19 and school finance: Adjusting to downturns and accommodating the costs of online education / Tyrone Bynoe and Thomas Downes
  • Section II. Design of school finance systems
  • Chapter 5. Effects of reducing the role of the local property tax in funding k-12 education / Daphne Kenyon and Semida Munteanu
  • Chapter 6. Centralization or decentralization? The financing of public primary education in China / Xiaoyang Ye, Wei Ha, and Dongyang Chen
  • Chapter 7. Weighted student funding and the incentives of charter schools / Paul Bruno
  • Section III. School level resource allocation
  • Chapter 8. Out of bounds: The implications of non-resident charter attendees for north Carolina educational policy and finance / Kyle Abbott, Eric Houck, and Douglas Lee Lauen
  • Chapter 9. Funding academic disparity: Integrating education finance and discipline policy / Taylor Enoch-Stevens and Lawrence O. Picus
  • Chapter 10. Disproportional assignment: The need for strategic, equity-forward student-teacher classroom rostering / Matthew G. Springer, Peter Halpin, Jeffrey A. Springer, David A. Stuit, Lora Cohe, Chris Brooks, and Jeff M. Powell
  • Chapter 11. A double draw of proximity: The importance of geography in teacher application and hiring decisions / Kieran M. Killeen and Susanna Loeb
  • Section IV. The icebergs of school finance
  • Chapter 12. Motivational effects and public funding for special education / Tammy Kolbe and Elizabeth Dhuey
  • Chapter 13. Recent research on teacher pension funding, benefits, and policy debates / Robert M. Costrell and Josh B. McGee
  • Chapter 14. Teacher pensions and teacher quality: Drawing on existing evidence to formulate new ideas / Maria D. Fitzpatrick. About the Contributors.