This report shows that New York can reduce special ed costs and enrollment and improve parental satisfaction with the program as part of the bargain—by adopting two simple reforms: changing the formula funding special education from a bounty system to a “lump-sum” system; and implementing a voucher program for children in special education.

The guide reviews the relation between public engagement and school finance litigation in theory and in practice.

If New York found a way to cut its estimated dropout rate in half, from 36 to 18 percent, the students would receive more than $320 million a year in higher wages and improve the state’s economy, according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based Alliance for Excellent Education.

The report investigates earnings gaps between elementary and secondary school teachers and similarly qualified men and women in a number of rich and middle income countries.

It is well-known that white and Asian students perform higher than black or Hispanic students on achievement tests. In this paper, we exploit longitudinal data on New York City’s elementary and middle schools and students to study these test score gaps.

The study evaluates the impact of North Carolina’s program of giving yearly $1,800 bonuses to teachers of math, science and special education in middle and high schools serving low-income or low-performing students.

Despite the recent focus on teacher quality, relatively little research exists on district practices to recruit, screen and select teachers. This paper takes a first step in filling this gap by documenting the findings of a survey on teacher hiring practices in New York State school districts.

This study examines whether subject-specific teacher certification and academic degrees are related to teacher quality.

The author used data from the Schools and Staffing Survey to investigate the probability that school districts reward the master's degree in order to develop a large cadre of of internal candidates for administrative positions. The empirical evidence is weakly consistent with the theory.

Using data on every teacher in New York State public elementary schools from 1994- 95 through 2001-2002, this paper examines the response of teachers to the implementation of state-mandated testing.

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools by Peter Schrag.

This book focuses on key aspects of revenue generation for the support of public schools. The first section of the book provides general information about revenue sources, trends, and frameworks for evaluating various taxation-based strategies for raising revenues for schools.

The paper discussed the role of teacher in student learning and reviewed various strategies to improve the quality of teacher workforce.

The author reviews the history of education finance litigation, focusing on the adequacy lawsuits of the last 15 years.

An overview of the research on state aid to education and a detailed look at state aid reform in five key states: Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, and Vermont.

The article compares three studies on education adequacy standards for New York city and discusses the consequences of CFE decision on students.

The article introduces the development of CFE decision and its influence on school funding in New York City.

Analysis of state achievement growth as measured by the National Assessment of Educational progress shows that accountability systems introduced during the 1990s had a clear positive impact on student achievement. This single policy instrument did not, however, also lead to any narrowing in the black-white achievement gap (though it did narrow the Hispanic-white achievement gap). Moreover, the black-white gap appears to have been adversely impacted over the decade by increasing minority concentrations in the schools.

The study included 4,948 participants in Tennessee’s class-size experiment, Project STAR. Analyses showed that graduating was related to K–3 achievement and that attending small classes for 3 or more years increased the likelihood of graduating from high school, especially among students eligible for free lunch. Policy and research implications are discussed.

The paper summarizes the legal history of The DeRolph case, on school funding equity in Ohio State, and its impact on current funding system.

This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where they grew up and, controlling for proximity, they prefer areas with characteristics similar to their hometown.

This paper examines New York City elementary school teachers¡¦ decisions to stay in the same school, transfer to another school in the district, transfer to another district, or leave teaching in New York State during the first five years of their careers.

This artide proposes a general conception of educational adequacy and draws on a lengthy history of economic theory and emerging empirical evidence to support that conception..

The purpose of this article is to reinvigorate the discussion of vertical equity through an assessment of the funding systems in four states that ascertains how and to what extent risk factors are addressed.

This paper explores the current state education finance systems, the need for reinventing them to provide adequacy and equity aligned to standards based reform is discussed and discusses approaches for determining a base spending level considered adequate for the average child to reach high educational standards.