The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and student outcomes, I turn to another method and use house prices to infer the value parents place on school quality. I look within school districts at houses located on attendance district boundaries; houses then diffe...

This is the first national study of fiscal spillovers between local governments and the first to examine whether fiscal spillovers vary based on the form of democracy used to determine tax rates. There is an extensive theoretical literature concerning fiscal spillovers between local governments, but it is challenging to empirically distinguish spillovers from common underlying trends. Using a n...

Any variations in the anthropometric parameters i.e., height, body mass, BMI, BSA, body fat %, WHR, WHtR etc., and basic physiological parameters i.e., haemoglobin content, respiratory rate, pulse rate, blood pressure etc., in female school children of pre-pubertal, pubertal and post-pubertal age groups from Bankura District and from the district of West Midnapore of West Bengal, India were stu...

Since 1971, most states have been subject to lawsuits seeking to reform their education funding systems. These cases are litigated on the basis of state (not federal) constitutional language and generally seek either greater equity in funding among school districts or a guaranteed level of adequate funding for education. State supreme courts have found the finance systems unconstitutional in 16...

poor communities to generate the same tax revenues for a given local rate (Coons, Proposition 13 gutted California's proPClune and Sugarman, 1970). In an aterty tax system in 1978. Most people think tempt to comply with the coures ruling that the tax-revolt initiative was caused by the state legislature adopted a new school' excessivegovernment spending and rising aid formula that added funds t...

BACKGROUND Insufficient attention has been paid to the process of conducting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's School Health Index (SHI) to promote collaboration between universities and urban school districts when developing adolescent health promotion initiatives. This article provides an overview of the real-world contextual challenges and opportunities this type of collaborat...

TURNING around chronically underperforming schools and districts has been an elusive goal, despite prioritization at the highest levels of government (Gewertz, 2009). In recent years, considerable federal resources have been devoted toward this end. The Obama administration’s signature education initiative, Race to the Top, awarded over $4 billion in competitive grant funding to states in part ...

IMPORTANCE In recent years, across the United States, many school districts have cut on-site delivery of health services by eliminating or reducing services provided by qualified school nurses. Providing cost-benefit information will help policy makers and decision makers better understand the value of school nursing services. OBJECTIVE To conduct a case study of the Massachusetts Essential S...