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The Identification of Higher and Lower Performing Maine Schools: School Profiles and Characteristics
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Silvernail, David L. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2007
Identifying Maine's higher and lower performing schools may be useful for many purposes, but two are particularly important. Identifying these schools is important for developing and refining Maine's new funding formula. Maine's Essential Programs and Services (EPS) school funding formula is what is known nationally as a cost-based adequacy model.…
Descriptors: Profiles, Institutional Characteristics, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Preliminary Analysis: The Cost and Characteristics of Maine's Higher Performing Public Schools
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Silvernail, David L. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2006
In Spring 2005 the Maine Legislature passed legislation establishing an isolated small school adjustment in the Essential Programs and Services (EPS) funding formula. The adjustment for isolated small high schools (i.e. under 200 pupils) was a reduction in student-teacher ratios in the formula calculations, and in the case of isolated elementary…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Size, School Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness