Taking Stock of California's Weighted Student Funding Overhaul: What Have Districts Done with Their Spending Flexibility? Rapid Response

Autor/inn/en	Roza, Marguerite; Coughlin, Tim; Anderson, Laura
Institution	Georgetown University, Edunomics Lab
Titel	Taking Stock of California's Weighted Student Funding Overhaul: What Have Districts Done with Their Spending Flexibility? Rapid Response
Quelle	(2017), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Finance; State Aid; Funding Formulas; Educational Change; Decision Making; Educational Policy; State School District Relationship; School District Autonomy; Teacher Salaries; Teacher Employment Benefits; Resource Allocation; Elementary Secondary Education; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Funding; Finanzierung; Bildungsreform; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Staatliches Schulamt; School district; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Ressourcenallokation; Kalifornien
Abstract	In 2013 California adopted a new watershed state finance policy, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) to drive more resources to students with higher needs, create more spending flexibility, and let districts decide how to spend substantial new dollars. Our analysis examines financial data from nearly all California school systems to clarify how their spending choices changed in the first three years of the new state funding law. We find that predictions of wholesale ill-conceived spending choices in the absence of state prescription have not been borne out. And while we find that districts generally didn't make radical changes in spending, they did spend in ways that could help the highest-need students and did show evidence of "customizing" spending to meet local needs. With LCFF, California has undertaken one of the nation's largest weighted student funding (WSF) overhauls to date. As such, its experience is of national interest. This paper is part 1 of a series analyzing early impacts of LCFF. [For part 2, see ED612170. For part 3, see ED612172.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University. 37th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057. e-mail: edunomics@georgetown.edu; Web site: http://edunomicslab.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01