This project was sponsored by a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a legislative agency of the Pennsyl-vania General Assembly. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative agency that serves as a resource for rural policy within the Pennsylvania General Assembly. It was created in 1987 under Act 16, the Rural Revitalization Act, to promote and sustain the ...

This article contributes to the broader discussion of promotion, prevention, and intervention in child and adolescent mental health by describing implementation and early outcomes of an 8-school district demonstration project aimed at making the promotion of social and emotional learning a systemic part of school districts' practice. Eight districts are 2-3 years in to their participation in th...

This paper examines how education policy generates residential sorting and changes residential land price inequality within a city. In 1974, Seoul shifted away from an exam based high school admission system, created high school districts and randomly allocated students to schools within each district. I examine how residential land prices change across school districts using a first difference...

INTRODUCTION Foods and beverages marketed in schools are typically of poor nutritional value. School districts may adopt policies and practices to restrict marketing of unhealthful foods and to promote healthful choices. Students' exposure to marketing practices differ by school demographics, but these differences have not yet been examined by district characteristics. METHODS We analyzed dat...

Historically, the number of public school districts in the United States has decreased despite a dramatic increase in the number of students enrolled. Although public school district consolidation has impacted districts of all sizes, since the late 1930’s smaller rural districts facing dwindling community resources have merged or consolidated with each other, resulting in fewer school districts...

BACKGROUND In 2002, CDC recommended that the nation's schools establish policies that reduce sun exposure to decrease students' risk of skin cancer. PURPOSE A program to convince public school districts to adopt such a policy was evaluated. DESIGN RCT. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Public school districts in Colorado (n=56) and Southern California (n=56). INTERVENTION Policy information, tools, ...

The Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004 required school districts to establish a local school wellness policy by the first day of the 2006-2007 school year. To provide a baseline measure of the extent to which wellness-related policies were implemented in school districts nationwide in 2006, this study analyzed data from the 2006 School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS)...

This study provides a comprehensive review of California’s system of school facility finance. Along with describing that system, it examines the state’s investment over time and provides an analysis of the relationship between the revenues available to school districts and various district characteristics. The study attempts to answer five broad questions related to the way California finances ...

The early 1990s have been a time of fiscal stress for local governments in the United States with school districts particularly hard hit. This article presents the results of a detailed study of potential cost savings from consolidation of New York school districts. It extends past research on consolidation by developing a theoretical framework which distinguishes several dimensions of economie...

Executive Summary While research on school finance equity has traditionally focused on disparities across school districts, recent years have witnessed increased attention to resource differences across individual schools, particularly within large school districts. With a majority of the existing evidence on intra-district equity coming from the nations largest districts, little is known about...