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A Constrained Bureaucratic Model of Behavioral Responses to School Finance Reform
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Ullrich, Laura D.; Murray, Matthew N. – Journal of Education Finance, 2017
"Tennessee Small School Systems v. McWherter" case led to a significant reform of the state's school finance system during 1992-1993 with the phased-in implementation of the Basic Education Program. This paper examines the impact of Tennessee's school finance reform on education spending using a complete panel of school districts from…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Finance
No Child Left Behind and Administrative Costs: A Resource Dependence Study of Local School Districts
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Neely, Stephen R. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
This study considers the impact of federal funding on the administrative expenditures of local school districts since the passage of the No-Child-Left-Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. Under NCLB, federal education funds were made contingent upon a variety of accountability and reporting standards, creating new administrative costs and challenges for…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Expenditures, School Districts
A Statistical Study of the Public Schools of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Bulletin, 1915, No. 11. Whole Number 636
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Frost, Norman – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Information concerning educational conditions in the southern Appalachian region is scattered, fragmentary, and often partisan to the assumption either that conditions are ideal or that they are inconceivably bad. The purpose of this study is to draw together the available facts in the case. Necessarily, this study is largely statistical. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Topography, Counties, Geographic Regions
Tennessee School Finance Equity as Determined by Locally Funded Teaching Positions.
Peevely, Gary L.; Ray, John R. – 1989
The Tennessee School Finance Equity Study was begun in 1978 to review the equity and adequacy of Tennessee's Public School Finance Program. Changes in the structure of the Tennessee Foundation Program (TFP) did achieve greater equity in the amount of funds local districts obtained from the foundation program even though the residence of the…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Expenditure per Student
Comparative Information on Higher Education in the SREB States.
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Spence, David S. – 1979
Comparative information on higher education in the southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia) compiled by the Southern Regional Education Board is presented. The report is divided into the following seven sections (with…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Programs, Comparative Analysis
The State Board of Regents 1978-79 Annual Report of State University and Community College System of Tennessee for the Period of July 1, 1978 to June 30, 1979.
Tennessee State Board of Regents, Nashville. – 1979
The 1978-79 profile of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee shows its fall enrollment to be 88,799 (headcount) or 65,683 full-time equivalent students, with 11,358 students graduated. Full-time faculty numbered 2,684. The state appropriation was $137.5 million, with an operating budget of $230.1 million. During the year…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, College Desegregation, College Faculty, College Libraries