Equity of Education Resources: School-Level Finance Data

• In Event: 69.056 - Roundtable Session 31
  In Roundtable Session: 69.056-3 - Pecuniary and Nonpecuniary Investments in Education

Abstract

The Department of Education mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering education excellence and ensuring equal access. School-level finance data provides reliable and unbiased measures that allow for comparison of how resources are distributed among schools within local districts.

The School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) is an extension of two collections being conducted by NCES in collaboration with the Census Bureau: the School District Finance Survey (F-33) and the state-level National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS).

Research questions:
• What is the association between of the percentage of students in poverty and school expenditures across and within districts?
• What is the association between geographic location (urbanicity) and school expenditures across and within districts?

Authors

• Stephen Quin Cornman, U.S. Department of Education

• Stephen Wheeler, U.S. Census Bureau