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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Educational spending"”.
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The impact of school district financial allocation on district effectiveness : a look at school districts in Missouri
… base on the relationship between categorical educational spending and how resource allocation impacts district effectiveness. The independent variables are overall expenditures per ADA, average teacher salary, expenditures on instructional salary per pupil, expenditures on instructional …
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Massachusetts School District responses to standards-based reform : issues of implementation and the impact of the MCAS
… all aspects of public education including, educational spending, teacher hiring, curriculum development, and accountability. The most critical and controversial piece of the legislation was the Massachusetts Curriculum Assessment System, a test of student knowledge of curriculum and …
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Essays in Municipal Finance
… unclear whether these policies prevent excessive spending or constrain efficient investment in public goods and services. Using referendum data from Massachusetts, I find that easing property tax limits leads to an increase in educational spending and government salaries, and a decrease in pension …
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Instructional expenditures in Illinois high school districts and the relationship to student achievement during NCLB
… relationship between student achievement and educational resources was observed, as well as for students identified as low-income. The linkage between student achievement, property values, and educational resources in Illinois was also confirmed. Unique to this study was the addition of the …
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Three essays in development economics
… analyzing how intrahousehold allocation of educational resources in rural China responds to inequities in endowment between children. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impact of village-level land reallocations in China on household economic outcomes. Since land was decollectivized in …