Realigning Resources for District Transformation: Using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds to Advance a Strategic Education Reform Agenda

Offers ideas for spending stimulus funds strategically to align and restructure districts' use of resources to improve student performance by assessing current practices, focusing on support for quality instruction, and making transitional investments

Extending the State Fiscal Relief Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)

During recessions the federal government tries to stimulate the economy (i.e., "prime the pump") by increasing spending and cutting taxes. This requires deficit spending. But state governments have to balance their budgets in both good times and bad. So, to balance their budgets during recessions, states almost always end up cutting spending and/or increasing taxes, thus putting more drag on the economy rather than less. Since the federal government is responsible for overall macroeconomic management, it makes sense for the federal government to provide fiscal relief to the states during recessions to reduce the amount of budget cutting and tax increasing necessary at the state level. If the federal government doesn't help the states during recessions, then state budget-balancing actions will cancel out a greater portion of the positive impact of federal stimulus efforts. The "state fiscal relief" that was included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) played a major role in allowing New York and the other states to balance their 2009-10 with fewer budget cuts and fewer tax increases than would have been necessary otherwise. Argues that this "state fiscal relief" should be extended so that its phase-out dovetails more closely with the recovery of the 50 states' economies and finances

For Our Information, July & August 1952, Vol. V, no. 1-2

An official publication of the ILR School, Cornell University, “for the information of all faculty, staff and students.

(WP 2017-02) The Great Recession and Public Education

We examine the impact of the Great Recession on K-12 education finance and employment and generate five key results. First, nearly 300,000 school employees lost their jobs. Second, schools that were heavily dependent financially on state governments were particularly vulnerable to the recession. Third local revenues from the property tax actually increased during the recession, primarily because millage rates rose in response to declining property values. Fourth, inequality in school spending rose sharply during the Great Recession. Fifth, the federal government’s efforts to shield education from some of the worst effects of the recession achieved their major goal

Chicago Recovery Partnership Evaluation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

From 2009-2011, the City of Chicago and Cook County received a total of $2.35 billion in funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA]. The stimulus money was allocated to seven areas: education, basic needs, transportation and infrastructure, housing and energy, public safety, broadband and workforce development. The Chicago Recovery Partnership Evaluation of ARRA analyzes the impact of the stimulus spending using a costbenefit analysis framework. This report evaluated$1.09 billion of total spending in Chicago and Cook County, resulting in net benefits ranging from -$173.9 to$2,740.2 million. The wide range in net benefits is attributed largely to education, which received over half of ARRA funding

School Leader Update, May 2009

Monthly newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Educatio

Allocative inefficiency and school competition

A substantial literature indicates that the public school system in the United States is inefficient. Some have posited that this inefficiency arises from a lack of competition in the education market. On the other hand, the Tiebout hypothesis suggests that public schools may already face significant competition. In this paper, the authors examine the extent to which competition for students influences public school inefficiency in Texas. They use a Shephard input distance function to model education production and use bootstrapping techniques to examine allocative inefficiencies. Switching regressions estimation suggests that school districts in noncompetitive metropolitan areas are more than twice as allocatively inefficient as school districts in competitive metropolitan areas.Competition ; Education

On the political economy of school deregulation

Education

PPR working papers : catalog of numbers 1 to 105

This paper contains a numerical listing of working papers produced by Policy, Planning, and Research. Each citation contains a brief abstract, and the contact point for the paper.Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,ICT Policy and Strategies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems

Committing to Equal Opportunity

The main goal of this research paper was to examine whether the New Hampshire funding system of public education is effective in providing equal educational opportunities to all children. The findings from the quantitative and qualitative analyses of this research study suggest that, despite a historically increasing role of the state government, New Hampshire’s funding system of public education has not proven to be effective in providing the opportunity of an adequate education to students in poor districts, and gaps in student achievement persist between poor and wealthier districts. The underlying problems of the funding structure are explored, and, finally, this report suggests a list of policy recommendations to make the New Hampshire funding system more effective in providing an adequate education to all children