Does Money Matter More in the Country? Education Funding Reductions and Achievement in Kansas, 2010–2018

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dc.contributor.authorRauscher, Emilyen
dc.date.accessed2020-10-08en
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-11T18:00:47Zen
dc.date.available2021-10-11T18:00:47Zen
dc.date.issued2020-10-07en
dc.description.abstractThe U.S. Department of Education made recent technical changes reducing eligibility for the Rural and Low-Income School Program. Given smaller budgets and lower economies of scale, rural districts may be less able to absorb short-term funding cuts and experience stronger negative achievement effects. Kansas implemented a state-level finance change (block grant funding) after 2015, which froze district revenue regardless of enrollment and reduced funding in districts where enrollment increased. Difference-in-differences models compare achievement before and after block grant implementation to estimate effects of funding cuts separately in rural and nonrural districts. Between-state and within-state comparisons offer complementary identification strategies in which the strengths of one approach help address limitations of the other. Revenue/spending reductions are similar by geography but represent a larger fraction of rural district budgets. Results indicate that revenue reductions have larger implications for achievement in rural areas, where they represent a larger proportion of the total budget.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAmerican Educational Research Associationen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.issueNo. 4,en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2332858420963685en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/105256en
dc.identifier.volumeVol. 6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectschool financeen
dc.subjectacademic achievementen
dc.subjectrural educationen
dc.subjectgeographyen
dc.subjecteducational policyen
dc.titleDoes Money Matter More in the Country? Education Funding Reductions and Achievement in Kansas, 2010–2018en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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