Title Information
Title
School Finance Reforms, Teachers’ Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources
Name
Name Part
Eric Brunner
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Joshua Hyman
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Andrew Ju
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
K-12 Education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Finance
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Inequality
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Politics, governance, philanthropy, and organizations
Origin Information
Date Created
2018
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
School finance reforms caused some of the most dramatic increases in intergovernmental aid from states to local governments in U.S. history. We examine whether teachers’ unions affected the fraction of reform-induced state aid that passed through to local spending and the allocation of these funds. Districts with strong teachers’ unions increased spending nearly dollar-for-dollar with state aid, and spent the funds primarily on teacher compensation. Districts with weak unions used aid primarily for property tax relief, and spent remaining funds on hiring new teachers. The greater expenditure increases in strong union districts led to larger increases in student achievement.
Language
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eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
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edworkingpapers.com
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/g6bq-1a29
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