Service-learning courses help students to identify career opportunities and foster civic engagement, but links to projects with local governments may be difficult to forge. State municipal associations are well positioned
Dec 2024
Long COVID and financial hardship: A disaggregated analysis at income and education levels
Objectives To examine how long COVID is associated with financial hardship (food insecurity, inability to pay bills, or threat of losing service) across income and education levels, and to assess
Feb 2024
Measuring Family Income and Student Risk in Public Schools
There is now clear evidence that family income is not measured accurately by free and reduced-price meal (FRM) enrollment. But with decades of policy infrastructure built around using FRM enrollment
Jan 2024
Predicted Academic Performance: A New Approach to Identifying At-Risk Students in Public Schools
There have been substantial advances in the development of states’ education data systems over the past 20 years, supported by large investments from the federal government. However, the availability of
Oct 2023
We study the progressivity of state funding of school districts under Tennessee’s weighted student funding formula. We propose a simple definition of progressivity based on the difference in exposure to
Jun 2023
The Heterogeneous and Longer-Term Effects of the Great Recession on Public School District Finances
During the Great Recession and in the years that immediately followed, previous research has well-documented that U.S. public school districts receiving larger shares of their funding from state governments experienced
Sep 2018
State Subsidy Composition In Higher Education: Policy and Impacts
Higher education is the third largest state expenditure behind K-12 and Medicaid but is generally more discretionary than most other budget categories. As demographic trends and economic downturns constrain state
Sep 2017
Does Kentucky’s Merit-based Scholarship Program, KEES, Improve College Completion?
College completion is a complex process involving numerous socioeconomic factors at the individual, institutional, and governmental levels. One important factor is the way in which financial aid is disbursed so
