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Fox, Lauren; Kazouh, Ashley; Wagner, Lindsay; Lee, Emma Swift – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2019
The 2019 Local School Finance Study examines data from the 2016-17 school year. The purpose of this annual study is to isolate local spending from state and federal spending to examine the capacity and actual effort of counties to support public schools. The Local School Finance Study focuses not only on the amount that counties spend on schools,…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Government, State Government, Public Schools
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2013
The 2013 federal Budget was delivered ironically the same day as the Parliamentary Budget Officer was in court seeking more information about the impact of the government's $5.2 billion in spending cuts announced last year. The lack of budgetary transparency and accountability has become a hallmark of the Conservative government. Anyone expecting…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Budgets, Operating Expenses, Resource Allocation
Desrochers, Donna M.; Hurlburt, Steven – Delta Cost Project at American Institutes for Research, 2016
This report examines college and university finances during one of the most turbulent economic periods in decades. The financial ramifications of the 2008 recession were vast, affecting students' ability to pay for college, lawmakers' prioritization of public resources, and the budgetary environment facing higher education leaders. The challenges…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Expenditures
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DeAngelis, Karen J.; Brent, Brian O.; Ianni, Danielle – Journal of Education Finance, 2011
A spate of school shootings in the U.S. has prompted policymakers to address the public's growing perception that our schools are unsafe. As education policymakers continue to press for additional security initiatives, it is important to understand the costs borne by school systems for these programs. Thus far, the scholarly literature is silent…
Descriptors: School Security, School Surveys, Costs, School Safety
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Cornman, Stephen Q.; Keaton, Patrick; Glander, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report presents data from the School District Finance Survey (F-33) of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system for school year (SY) 2010-11, fiscal year 2011 (FY 11). The F-33 survey is a school district-level financial survey that consists of data submitted annually to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Costs, Expenditure per Student
Desrochers, Donna M.; Hurlburt, Steven – Delta Cost Project at American Institutes for Research, 2014
This "Trends in College Spending" update presents national-level estimates for the "Delta Cost Project" data metrics during the period 2001-11. To accelerate the release of more current trend data, however, this update includes only a brief summary of the financial patterns and trends observed during the decade 2001-11, with…
Descriptors: Costs, Higher Education, Colleges, Expenditures
Chambers, Jay G.; Brodziak, Iliana; Levin, Jesse; Cruz, Lisa – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2011
This Analysis Brief shows how per-pupil spending varies with student poverty (as measured by the percent of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch) across elementary, middle, and high schools in Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD). The authors have carried out separate analyses that make use of the California Standardized Account…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Strategic Planning
Luna, Andrew L.; Brennan, Kelly A. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2009
This study uses a regression model to determine if a significant difference exists between the actual budget allocation that an academic department received and the model's predicted budget allocation for that same department. Budget data from a Southeastern Master's/Comprehensive state university were used as the dependent variable, and the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Multiple Regression Analysis, Departments
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2013
This "Academic Year Report 2012-13" provides a snapshot of funding, facilities, staffing, and enrollments in community and technical colleges in Washington state for the past academic year. The report also describes key measures of student outcomes and addresses the most frequently asked questions related to expenditures, personnel and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Enrollment, Full Time Equivalency
Desrochers, Donna M.; Wellman, Jane V. – Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, 2011
"Trends in College Spending, 1999-2009: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?" is the fourth in a series of reports on college and university spending from the Delta Cost Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability. The mission of the Delta Cost Project is to improve public…
Descriptors: Accountability, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Desrochers, Donna M.; Lenihan, Colleen M.; Wellman, Jane V. – Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, 2010
"Trends in College Spending, 1998-2008: Where does the money come from? Where does it go? What does it buy?" is the third in a series of reports on college and university spending from the Delta Cost Project. The findings presented in this report concentrate on the 1998 to 2008 time period--the last academic year for which spending data are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Public Sector, Income
Chambers, Jay G.; Levin, Jesse; Brodziak, Iliana; Chan, Derek – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System maintained by the California Department of Education (CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Personnel Data
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Venetoklis, Takis – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
We measure the distributive justice preferences of students within eight departments in the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Turku, Finland. We use the Finnish government's annual budget and its specific appropriations as a proxy to measure the students' underlying preferences. We test whether the type of studies of the respondents…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Grants
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Turk, Frederick J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1993
In college and university administration, overhead costs are often charged to programs indiscriminately, whereas the support activities that underlie those costs remain unanalyzed. It is time for institutions to decrease ineffective use of resources. Activity-based management attributes costs more accurately and can improve efficiency. (MSE)
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Searle, Barbara W.; And Others – 1988
The primary, secondary, and higher education textbooks used in China today date from the late 1970s which makes them inadequate for the current stress on science and technology in education. While 70 percent of the higher education textbooks are mimeographed, unedited manuscripts, the majority of published books are printed on newsprint quality…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Improvement Programs
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