Causality Tests for Public School Performance and Funding
نویسنده
چکیده
This paper seeks to shed light on the role of school funding in individual school performance. A unique data set is utilized for the Metropolitan Nashville – Davidson County School District in Tennessee, known colloquially as Metro. In 2005 the Metro school board undertook the task of breaking down individual school spending levels by funding source. The resulting 2004-2005 financial data are combined with academic test scores and demographic data for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 academic years for each of 70 elementary schools. Econometric tests are then conducted to examine whether contemporaneous test score performance is determined by funding, or whether funding is determined by prior performance, or whether other school characteristics influence both.
منابع مشابه
Public Expenditure and Economic Growth in Nigeria (A Granger Causality Approach) 1983-2012
This paper examines the impact of government expenditure on the Nigerian economy for the period 1983 - 2012. The government expenditure components used as the explanatory variables in the model are: expenditures on Health, Education, Defense, Agriculture and Transportation and Communication. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as a parameter for measuring economic growth. In order to esta...
متن کاملInstrumental Music and ACT Scores
Introduction Allocation of dwindling resources force public administrators to make choices and instrumental music program budgets can be cut or even eliminated by state agencies or school districts. Whether or not this is good policy will be examined by the collection and analysis of school level data. Public school instrumental music programs are expensive to operate and maintain, involve spec...
متن کاملSustainability and Free Education Policy: An Examination of Public Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria.
The study examined whether education should be free or not among the public secondary school teachers in Ogun State in Nigeria. The study examined the status of the secondary schools in terms of funding available to public secondary schools in Ogun State. The study applied Structural Functionalist theory and adopted qualitative method of data collection. Five (5) Key Informant Interviews (KII) ...
متن کاملEvaluating the Provision of School Performance Information for School Choice Evaluating the Provision of School Performance Information for School Choice
The Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) is a leading research centre, combining expertise in economics, geography and law. Our objective is to study the intersection between the public and private sectors of the economy, and in particular to understand the right way to organise and deliver public services. The Centre aims to develop research, contribute to the public debate and inf...
متن کاملCEE DP 128 Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form other than that in which it is published. Executive Summary This research paper is motivated by a long tail at the bottom of the educational distribution, educational inequality between those from high and low socioeconomic groups and t...
متن کامل