This study examines the impact on student performance of the education finance reform enacted in 1993 in Massachusetts and of school districts’ institutional structure. Estimating education expenditure and demand functions, this study presents evidence that changes in the state education aid following the education reform resulted in significantly higher student performance. Also, school officials and voters in the dependent school districts in Massachusetts respond to fiscal incentives in much the same way as those in independent school districts in other states. Finally, there are significant differences between regular school districts (coterminous with a single municipality) and regional school districts (consisting of more than one).
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{"title":"Virginia","authors":"W. Owings, L. Kaplan, R. Salmon","doi":"10.32388/kmgits","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/kmgits","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"286 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69633345","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":"Ohio","authors":"Jacob T. Akin, C. P. Escue, Randall S. Vesely","doi":"10.1787/5d473e25-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/5d473e25-en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"275 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67574156","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}
The state of Colorado appears to be rebounding fiscally from the negative impact of the 2008 recession. Evidence of this recovery is found primarily in P–12 education funding trends. However, there is also proof of a brighter future when examining current funding trends in higher education in Colorado.
{"title":"Colorado","authors":"Gabriel R. Serna, Spencer C. Weiler","doi":"10.32388/uuat7h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/uuat7h","url":null,"abstract":"The state of Colorado appears to be rebounding fiscally from the negative impact of the 2008 recession. Evidence of this recovery is found primarily in P–12 education funding trends. However, there is also proof of a brighter future when examining current funding trends in higher education in Colorado.","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"9 1","pages":"250 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69641831","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":"M. Sala, Robert C. Knoeppel","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv21ptz0v.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv21ptz0v.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"281 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68800263","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 : 2014-03-21DOI: 10.4135/9781544354453.n35
Deborah A. Verstegen
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Pub Date : 2014-03-21DOI: 10.1163/2405-8262_rgg4_sim_024091
Osnat Zaken
To those whose business it is to classify the literature of "scientific medicine," something, by the way, quite different from the literature of "medical science," there is no fact more salient and arresting than the chaotic status of such literature. That every war of consequence since the invention of printing has been followed by an upthrust of literary activity is well-known, but never before in the history of the world has experimental medicine engendered such an astounding proliferation of recorded facts and opinions. The mental symbol is that of Stephen Leacock's young woman who got upon a horse and rode rapidly "in all directions." An example, near at hand, is the immense array of literature upon the active and passive relations of insulin. Billing's young chemist, who attempted to analyze a rat by "putting the entire animal into his crucible," would to-day experiment with the effect of the clear filtrate upon everything and of everything upon the filtrate. The terminology attaching to such literature is equally chaotic, suggesting the need of Occam's razor (entia non sunt multiplicanda) and justifying Fletcher's dictum: "The whole world is in a conspiracy against bibliographers. " Where experimentation is either haphazard or radiates from a substance or organ "in all directions," it is obvious that a certain percentage of the problems will be "illusory problems" (Scheinprobleme) and a certain proportion of the
{"title":"New York","authors":"Osnat Zaken","doi":"10.1163/2405-8262_rgg4_sim_024091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2405-8262_rgg4_sim_024091","url":null,"abstract":"To those whose business it is to classify the literature of \"scientific medicine,\" something, by the way, quite different from the literature of \"medical science,\" there is no fact more salient and arresting than the chaotic status of such literature. That every war of consequence since the invention of printing has been followed by an upthrust of literary activity is well-known, but never before in the history of the world has experimental medicine engendered such an astounding proliferation of recorded facts and opinions. The mental symbol is that of Stephen Leacock's young woman who got upon a horse and rode rapidly \"in all directions.\" An example, near at hand, is the immense array of literature upon the active and passive relations of insulin. Billing's young chemist, who attempted to analyze a rat by \"putting the entire animal into his crucible,\" would to-day experiment with the effect of the clear filtrate upon everything and of everything upon the filtrate. The terminology attaching to such literature is equally chaotic, suggesting the need of Occam's razor (entia non sunt multiplicanda) and justifying Fletcher's dictum: \"The whole world is in a conspiracy against bibliographers. \" Where experimentation is either haphazard or radiates from a substance or organ \"in all directions,\" it is obvious that a certain percentage of the problems will be \"illusory problems\" (Scheinprobleme) and a certain proportion of the","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"270 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64628079","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":"Florida","authors":"Brittany Larkin, J. Ulmer, R. Wood","doi":"10.32388/2286ht","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32388/2286ht","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"253 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69609213","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}
For the first time in more than 100 years, the governor and the majority in both houses of the legislature are Republican. The 2013–2015 budget signed by the governor in July 2013 implements several changes that are poised to have longterm impacts on the quality and stability of the teaching force and the delivery of public education in North Carolina. The budget incorporates major personal and corporate tax cuts from the Tax Simplification and Reduction Act, which will cost the state $86.6 million in tax revenue in FY 2013–2014 and $437.8 million in FY 2014–2015. This tax plan eliminated the current three-tiered individual income tax structure and sets a flat rate of 5.8% in 2014 and 5.75% in 2015. The act eliminated the personal exemption, but it increases the standard deduction. The corporate income tax will be lowered from 6.9% to 6% in 2014 and to 5% in 2015. The decrease in state revenue brought by the tax rate decrease is balanced by cuts to many programs, including public P–12 and higher education, and a slight broadening of the sales tax base. Higher education will see a 4.7% decrease in state funding and the P–12 public schools, a 1.2% decrease. The budget for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the K–12 administrative agency, will be cut by $780,000. Similarly, the budget for the University of North Carolina (UNC) system, composed of 17 four-year institutions, will be cut by $66 million. The UNC Chapel Hill’s medical school budget will be cut by $15 million.
{"title":"North Carolina","authors":"Lisa G. Driscoll, J. Watson","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvwh8dsp.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvwh8dsp.28","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time in more than 100 years, the governor and the majority in both houses of the legislature are Republican. The 2013–2015 budget signed by the governor in July 2013 implements several changes that are poised to have longterm impacts on the quality and stability of the teaching force and the delivery of public education in North Carolina. The budget incorporates major personal and corporate tax cuts from the Tax Simplification and Reduction Act, which will cost the state $86.6 million in tax revenue in FY 2013–2014 and $437.8 million in FY 2014–2015. This tax plan eliminated the current three-tiered individual income tax structure and sets a flat rate of 5.8% in 2014 and 5.75% in 2015. The act eliminated the personal exemption, but it increases the standard deduction. The corporate income tax will be lowered from 6.9% to 6% in 2014 and to 5% in 2015. The decrease in state revenue brought by the tax rate decrease is balanced by cuts to many programs, including public P–12 and higher education, and a slight broadening of the sales tax base. Higher education will see a 4.7% decrease in state funding and the P–12 public schools, a 1.2% decrease. The budget for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the K–12 administrative agency, will be cut by $780,000. Similarly, the budget for the University of North Carolina (UNC) system, composed of 17 four-year institutions, will be cut by $66 million. The UNC Chapel Hill’s medical school budget will be cut by $15 million.","PeriodicalId":44075,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education Finance","volume":"39 1","pages":"273 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68859513","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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