Reconciling State Aid and Property Tax Relief for Urban Schools

Eom, Tae Ho; Killeen, Kieran M.

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“…In many of the neediest districts the residents are more often renters rather than home-owners. Because STAR only applies to owner-occupied primary residences, high-need school districts with large proportions of renters do not receive the benefits of the STAR program to the same degree as wealthier school districts (Eom, Duncombe, Nguyen-Hoang & Yinger, 2014;Eom & Killeen, 2007). In the 2009-10 school year, the wealthiest districts received more than $1,500 per pupil in STAR, while the poorest districts received less than $1,000 on average (Baker & Corcoran, 2012).…”

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Forgotten equity: The promise and subsequent dismantling of education finance reform in New York State

Atchison

2019

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This study examines the impact of court-ordered finance reform in New York State resulting from Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York on equity of inputs using synthetic controls. The findings herein indicate court mandated education finance reform in New York had little to no impact on equity of educational inputs despite an overhauled education finance system intending to distribute more state funding based on student need. In the period during and following the Great Recession, the State of New York chose to cut districts’ foundation aid, a form of aid designed to be distributed progressively, halting any improvement in equity. Had funding been distributed to districts according to the foundation formula that was specified by the education finance reform legislation passed in 2007, high poverty districts would have received more funding and disparities in funding across districts with similar characteristics would have been reduced. I also show that other forms of aid, which are regressively distributed, could have been cut instead of foundation aid, allowing for more funding to flow to high poverty districts in a time of fiscal constraint.

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Section: How Schools Are Funded In the State Of New Yorkmentioning

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Forgotten equity: The promise and subsequent dismantling of education finance reform in New York State

Atchison

2019

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Urban, Suburban, and Rural Contexts of School Districts and Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies: Rediscovering Equity in Education Policy and Urban Planning

Silverman

2014

Leadership and Policy in Schools

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Weathering the storm: School funding in the COVID-19 era

Baker¹,

Weber²,

Atchison³

2020

Phi Delta Kappan

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The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a crisis in state and local budgets, potentially leaving many schools to face budgetary declines even as they’ve had to transform the way they serve their students, particularly those who are most vulnerable. Bruce Baker, Mark Weber, and Drew Atchison offer four recommendations for mitigating the looming fiscal crisis. 1) Provide a robust federal aid package; 2) Consider tax increases; 3) Distribute state aid equitably; and 4) Cancel aid programs that favor affluent districts.

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Reconciling State Aid and Property Tax Relief for Urban Schools

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Forgotten equity: The promise and subsequent dismantling of education finance reform in New York State

Forgotten equity: The promise and subsequent dismantling of education finance reform in New York State

Urban, Suburban, and Rural Contexts of School Districts and Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies: Rediscovering Equity in Education Policy and Urban Planning

Weathering the storm: School funding in the COVID-19 era

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