This article presents results from a survey on teacher recruitment practices used in New York State school districts and analyzes whether the level of use of recruitment practices is related to teacher qualifications. We find that most districts employ a wide variety of practices and that the...

States are financing a larger share of capital investment by school districts but little is known about how districts respond to facility aid programs. Our paper addresses this gap in the literature by examining how a short-term increase in the matching rate for the Building Aid program in New...

This paper provides a guide to statistically based methods for estimating the extra costs of educating disadvantaged students, shows how these methods are related, and compares state aid programs that account for these costs in different ways. We show how pupil weights, which are included in...

Despite the fact that the majority of local governments in the United States use volunteers to supplement paid staff, little research has been conducted on the cost of volunteers or demand for their services by public agencies. This article develops a general methodology for identifying the...

This article estimates a more general demand function for local fire services simultaneously with a flexible cost function. Besides the standard income and price variables, the demand model includes estimates of marginal cost, tax exporting, and debt financing. Using these results, it is...

In June 2003 the New York State Court of Appeals altered the education-finance landscape with its ruling in Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. New York. This ruling called for “[r]eforms to the current system of financing school funding” designed to ensure “that every school in New York City...