Pub Date : 2015-12-04DOI: 10.4135/9781544354453.n47
Misty B. Soles, Robert C. Knoeppel
While South Carolina law does not mandate an all-payer claims database (APCD), the Division of Medicaid Policy Research at the University of South Carolina Institute for Families in Society maintains a private database of voluntary claims submissions. The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS), which operates the state’s Medicaid program, partnered with several agencies to launch an ambitious price and quality transparency website, SCHealthData.org. SCDHHS aims to increase transparency in health care by providing revenue and utilization data, hospital chargemasters, and comparative price statistics for common DRGS. The state also proposed legislation in both surprise billing protections and shared savings program to contain healthcare costs.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-04DOI: 10.4135/9781483383019.n30
N. Alexander
Minnesota has a biennial budget, where the governor makes proposals to the operating budget in odd years, with proposed capital expenditures and supplements to the previous budget being made in even years. Its fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 30 (Minnesota Management and Budget 2015e). General Fund spending accounts for 50.9% of the state’s operating budget and provides over 90% of the expenditures for E-12 and virtually all of the revenues for higher education. The enacted budget for FY2014–2015 increased revenues by $2.3 billion and appropriations by $1.6 billion compared to the February 2013 forecast. These changes resulted in a surplus of $46.1 million (Minnesota Management and Budget 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2015d). While the fiscal state of the state is rosier than in the last biennium, worrying gaps in achievement among student groups persist and forms the backdrop to many of the proposed education initiatives. Policies focus on improving equity among students, schools, and districts as well as enhancing human capital investments at the post-secondary level (Scheck 2015). Below are the highlights in education funding for FY 2014 and 2015:
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The purpose of this study is to bring together recent innovations in the research literature around school district capital facility finance, municipal bond elections, statistical models of conditional time-varying outcomes, and data mining algorithms for automated text mining of election ballot proposals to examine the factors that influence the probability of school districts in the state of Michigan passing or failing capital facility finance bond elections from 1998– 2014. Automated text mining is a data mining technique that identifies latent topics from a corpus of documents. We used an unsupervised correlated topic model to analyze the full text wording of all 1,210 school district capital facility bond election ballot proposals in Michigan over 16 years. The model identified 9 different latent topics across the bonds, including requests to purchase new buildings, renovations, and athletic facilities. Interestingly, equipment purchases appear to be a distinct category of bond proposal topics. We then examined the independent effect of the bond topics on the probability of passing the bond and voter turnout using modeling techniques and control variables from the recent literature. Bonds that focused exclusively on athletic facilities were 4.35 times less likely to pass than bonds that request new construction or omnibus ballot proposals. This work extends previous research to show that capital facility bond proposals that pass the most often include all facility needs in a single ballot proposal, are the first attempt at the polls, are at the top of the ballot, and request lower amounts of spending.
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{"title":"North Carolina","authors":"Lisa G. Driscoll, Jim R. Watson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1chs6hx.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1chs6hx.39","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"40 1","pages":"330 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68789394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-03-19DOI: 10.4135/9781544354453.n11
Steve M. Bounds
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Pub Date : 2015-03-19DOI: 10.1515/9780823273935-095
Ken Helvey, Dennis E. Womack
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Pub Date : 2015-03-19DOI: 10.4135/9781483383019.n49
B. Cox
Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity (OED), ETSU, Box #70734, Johnson City, TN 37614-1709, telephone (423) 439-4445. Requests for accommodations of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the ETSU Office of Human Resources, Burgin Dossett #307, Johnson City, TN 37614-1709
{"title":"Tennessee","authors":"B. Cox","doi":"10.4135/9781483383019.n49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483383019.n49","url":null,"abstract":"Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Equity and Diversity (OED), ETSU, Box #70734, Johnson City, TN 37614-1709, telephone (423) 439-4445. Requests for accommodations of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinator at the ETSU Office of Human Resources, Burgin Dossett #307, Johnson City, TN 37614-1709","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"40 1","pages":"343 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70638310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"South Carolina","authors":"Matthew R. Della Sala, Robert C. Knoeppel","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv5nphrs.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv5nphrs.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"34 1","pages":"341 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2015-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68814974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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