Arkansas School Funding Equity

by Josh B. McGee This is the third in a series of posts on Arkansas school funding. In previous posts we discussed: How Arkansas’s school funding formula works and a bit about it’s history; and How Arkansas’s education pending compares...

Funding Arkansas’s Schools

by Josh McGee Today’s blog is the first in a series about Arkansas school funding. Our goal is to provide straightforward, data-driven explanations of things like: How the Arkansas K-12 funding system works; How our education funding compares to other states; How the...

District Funding Equity

Over the past few months we’ve written several posts about school spending. Most recently, we showed that there appears to be essentially no relationship between spending and test score growth. Of course the aim of education is broader than just test score growth, but...

More Money, More Growth?

We’ve been thinking a lot this week about school-level expenditures, and if the expenditures relate to student academic growth. We think that growth is the best reflection of the effect that a school is having on student learning. Spoiler Alert: there is...