Charter schools can influence a school district's costs by reducing economies of scale and
by changing the share of high cost students a district serves, but might also increase the …

This article makes the case that cost functions are the best available methodology for
ensuring consistency between a state's educational accountability system and its education …

Recessions may disproportionally affect school districts, especially with established fiscal
institutions and policies including balanced budget requirements, tax and expenditure …

This study examines the impact on student performance of the education finance reform
enacted in 1993 in Massachusetts and of school districts' institutional structure. Estimating …

While researchers have examined fiscal stabilization for state and local governments, less
attention has been dedicated to special purpose governments, such as school districts. This …

New York State (NYS) incentivizes cities and towns to merge their Tax Assessor's Offices
while maintaining separate taxing authority. This paper treats cooperative agreements …

Abstract The Great Recession led to marked declines in state revenue. In this paper we
investigate whether (and how) local school districts modified their funding and taxing …

School finance reforms are not well defined and are likely more prevalent than the current
literature has documented. Using a Bayesian changepoint estimator, we quantitatively …

This study investigates the achievement gap and horizontal disparity of schools' funding by
exploring and comparing the differences of funding between extremely wealthy and poor …

Taxes are an inescapable part of life. They are perhaps the most economically
consequential aspect of the relationship between individuals and their government …