School Finance Redesign Project

Publications

Title	Author/Editor	Date	Description
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Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza, James Harvey	11/2008	Public school finance systems around the United States are outmoded, failing to support the effective education of America�s children....
Funding Student Learning: How to Align Education Resources with Student Learning Goals		10/2008	After years of hard work and spending hundreds of millions to raise the level of student performance, educators, political and civic leaders, and parents still have not produced the results they expect....
Financing Schools for Results	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza	09/2008	This is a pre-print version of an article by Paul Hill and Marguerite Roza that was published in ASBO International's School Business Affairs magazine, Volume 74, Number 8....
Returns to Skill and Teacher Wage Premiums: What Can We Learn By Comparing the Teacher and Private Sector Labor Markets?	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Albert Liu, Dan Player	08/2008	SFRP Working Paper 8 (revised August 18, 2008) Analysts have long argued that salary schedules in public education have pernicious effects on who ends up teaching....
Must public education suffer from Baumol's disease?	Marguerite Roza	08/2008	This article first appeared in the Denver Post, August 1, 2008....
Money strings bind schools	Shelley De Wys	07/2008	This article by Shelley De Wys first appeared in the The News & Observer, July 14, 2008....
A Leap of Faith: Redesigning Teacher Compensation	Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber	06/2008	This paper (formerly SFRP Working Paper 25) briefly summarizes three School Finance Redesign Project teacher compensation studies that begin to help build the evidence base for teacher pay reform....
What Is the Sum of the Parts? How Federal, State and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types	Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, Tricia Davis	06/2008	This report (formerly SFRP Working Paper 9) demonstrates in greater detail than ever before how America�s methods of school finance work against a single-minded focus on student learning....
Allocation Anatomy: How District Policies That Deploy Resources Can Support (or Undermine) District Reform Strategies	Marguerite Roza	05/2008	The process of creating and managing a school budget is a complex undertaking, and many districts spend countless hours amassing thick budget binders and balancing resources among departments....
Allocation Anatomy: District Resource Distribution Practices & Reform Strategies (Research Brief)	Marguerite Roza	05/2008	A companion piece to Allocation Anatomy: How District Policies That Deploy Resources Can Support (or Undermine) District Reform Strategies, this research brief summarizes the report's key findings and recommendations....
The End of School Finance As We Know It	Paul Hill, Marguerite Roza	04/2008	This commentary originally appeared in Education Week, April 30, 2008....
Putting students first: Playing second fiddle to finances, teacher contracts, politics	Shelley De Wys, Paul Hill	02/2008	This article first appeared in the Seattle PI, February 29, 2008....
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Ohio	Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Jacob E. Adams, Jr	02/2008	SFRP Working Paper 27 New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before�ensuring that all students meet state standards....
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Washington	Shelley De Wys, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Jacob E. Adams, Jr	01/2008	SFRP Working Paper 26 New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before�ensuring that all students meet state standards....
The School Finance Redesign Project: A Synthesis of Project Work to Date	Paul Hill	01/2008	Education still claims the lion�s share of state and local government expenditures, but rising costs and competition with other sectors (e....
Reform the way we pay teachers	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond	12/2007	This article first appeared in the Seattle Times, December 19, 2007....
Teacher Attitudes About Compensation Reform: Implications for Reform Implementation	Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Scott DeBurgomaster	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 20 In response to concerns about the quality of the teacher workforce and the distribution of teacher quality among schools, some advocates, policymakers, and analysts have proposed alternative pay structures for teachers, including merit pay and incentives for hard-to-hire subject areas, hard-to-staff schools, and special knowledge and skills....
Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials in the Public Sector	Dan Goldhaber, Kate Destler, Dan Player	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 17 Policymakers and researchers alike have expressed concern about a teacher quality gap between schools with affluent student populations and the more disadvantaged ones....
Difficulties of Estimating the Cost of Achieving Education Standards	Susanna Loeb	08/2007	SFRP Working Paper 23 Susannah Loeb shows that none of the available methods for estimating what it would cost to reach high standards for all children is adequate to the task....
Recruiting New Teachers to Urban School Districts: What Incentives Will Work	Anthony T. Milanowski, Hope Longwell-Grice, Felicia Saffold, Janice Jones, Allan R. Odden, Kristen Schomisch	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 11 (Revised 7/30/2007) Often the districts most in need of quality teachers have the greatest difficulty attracting and retaining them....
Spending Choices and School Autonomy: Lessons From Ohio Elementary Schools	Marguerite Roza, Tricia Davis, Kacey Guin	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 21 Education policy is experiencing a revival of interest in school-based decision-making....
Two Alternative Yet Complementary Conceptual Frameworks for Financing American Education	Michael Kirst, Lori Rhodes	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 22 Michael Kirst suggests that a productive education system would focus relatively greater resources on out-of-school interventions, especially for the most disadvantaged children....
District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM): A Web-Based Tool Supporting the Strategic Use of Educational Resources	Stephen Frank, Karen Hawley Miles	07/2007	SFRP Working Paper 19: A companion piece to the District ResourcE Allocation Modeler (DREAM) tool....
A District-Level Simulation to Help Officials Reallocate Resources to Support Instructional Goals: The ERS District Resource Allocation Modeler (DREAM)	Karen Hawley Miles	07/2007	This SFRP project, led by Stephen Frank and Karen Hawley Miles, provides an analysis tool that districts can use in deliberating about how to use funds effectively....
Resource Allocation in Traditional and Reform-Oriented Collective Bargaining Agreements	Julia E. Koppich	05/2007	SFRP Working Paper 18 Julia Koppich looks at an important source of resource allocation decisions�teacher collective bargaining agreements....
Toward Effective Resource Use: Assessing How Education Dollars Are Spent	Jason Willis, Robert Durante, Paul Gazzerro	05/2007	SFRP Working Paper 16 Jason Willis, Robert Durante, and Paul Gazzerro show how districts can assess the efficiency of their own resource use compared to similar districts and judge whether non-instructional expenditures are excessive....
A New Approach to the Cost of Teacher Turnover	Anthony T. Milanowski, Allan R. Odden	04/2007	SFRP Working Paper 13 Anthony Milanowski and Allan Odden explore ways districts can reduce the costs (in terms of lost school productivity and lost training investments) of teacher turnover....
Incentive-Based Financing of Schools	Eric A. Hanushek	04/2007	SFRP Working Paper 14 Eric Hanushek analyzes the incentives under which public school teachers and leaders work....
School Finance Systems and Their Responsiveness to Performance Pressures: A Case Study of North Carolina	Janet S. Hansen, Gina S. Ikemoto, Julie Marsh, Heather Barney	04/2007	SFRP Working Paper 15 New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before�ensuring that all students meet state standards....
School Finance Systems and Their Responsiveness to Performance Pressures: A Case Study of Texas	Janet S. Hansen, Julie Marsh, Gina S. Ikemoto, Heather Barney	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 10 New accountability systems require states and districts to accomplish something they have never accomplished before�ensuring that all students meet state standards....
Out of the Box: Fundamental Change in School Funding	David H. Monk	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 12 How might money be used in a more productive system? David Monk imagines a public educational system in which it is possible to link benefits received with costs borne....
Improving Title I Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools	Goodwin Liu	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 7 Goodwin Liu demonstrates that there are many promising alternative ways to allocate and use funds under Title I, the federal government�s largest K-12 funding program....
Learning Science Meets School Finance: The How People Learn Framework as a Tool for Resource Decisions	Diana Sharp, John Bransford	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 6 Diana Sharp and John Bransford show how the learning sciences can be applied to school finance....
Making Resource Decisions Amidst Technical Uncertainty	James Guthrie, Paul Hill	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 3 James Guthrie and Paul Hill suggest how a performance-driven system would allocate funds, monitor performance, constantly search for more productive models of instruction, and replace less effective schools and programs as more effective ones became available....
Conditions for Student Success: The Cycle of Continuous Instructional Improvement	Joanne Weiss	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 4 Joanne Weiss shows how schools can seek �continuous improvement....
How the Federal Government Shapes and Distorts the Financing of K-12 Schools	Christopher T. Cross, Marguerite Roza	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 1 Christopher Cross and Marguerite Roza examine the categorical program strategy by which the federal government and most states try to target extra funds for particular purposes....
Paying for School Finance Adequacy With the National Average Expenditure Per Pupil	Allan R. Odden, Michael E. Goetz, Lawrence O. Picus	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 2 Allan Odden, Michael Goetz, and Lawrence Picus show that many districts have accelerated student learning by reallocating funds to emphasize targeted assistance to students, fewer non-instructional burdens on teachers, greater use of instructional technology, coaching for teachers, and class size reduction targeted on core classes only....
Creating the Political Conditions for Major Changes in School Finance Policy	Lorraine M. McDonnell	03/2007	SFRP Working Paper 5 Lorraine McDonnell asks whether significant changes in public education finance are politically feasible....
A Policy Simulation Approach to Analyzing the Cost of Alternative Strategies to Improve Student Performance	Richard Brandon		The Human Services Policy Center at the University of Washington has developed a policy simulation to estimate the level of investment needed to support K-12 education under various scenarios....

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