Getting Down to Facts

The document deluge is here. Feast your eyes on this pile! The "Getting Down to Facts" project home page describes the project. But the real meat of project are the studies, which we've taken the liberty of listing here. All these links are to the full studies:

1. Equality and Adequacy in the State’s Provision of Education: Mapping the Conceptual Landscape
2. Financing K-12 Education in California: A System Overview
3. Evolution of California State School Finance with Implications from Other States, (summary)
4. Understanding the Incentives in California’s Education Finance System, (summary)
5. District Dollars: Painting a Picture of Revenues and Expenditures in California’s School Districts, (summary)
6. Financing School Facilities in California, (summary)
7. Do Non-School Resources Substitute for School Resources? A Review of the Evidence, (summary)
8. Evaluating the “Crazy Quilt”: Educational Governance in California, (summary)
9. Charter Schools in California: A Review of their Autonomy and Resources Allocation Practices, (summary)
10. School District Financial Management: Personnel Policies, and Practices, (summary)
11. A Review of State Teacher Policies: What are they, What are their effects, and What are their Implications for School Finance?, (summary)
12. Leadership Development in California, (summary)
13. California Principals’ Resources: Acquisition, Deployment, and Barriers, (summary)
14. Curbing or Facilitating Inequality? Law, Collective Bargaining, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in California, (summary)
15. Education Data in California: Availability and Transparency, (summary)
16. Bringing the State and Locals Together: Developing Effective Data Systems in California School Districts, (summary)
17. Successful California Schools in the Context of Educational Adequacy, (summary)
18. Assessing the Costs of K-12 Education in California Public Schools, (summary)
19. Efficiency and Adequacy in California School Finance: A Professional Judgment Approach, (summary)
20. Aligning School Finance with Academic Standards: A Weighted-Student Formula Based on a Survey of Practitioners, (summary)
21. Considering Special Education Adequacy in California, (summary)
22. Resource Needs for California’s English Learners, (summary)
23. Teacher Compensation and Local Labor Market Conditions in California: Implications for School Funding, (summary)

Many of the studies also have summaries that are available here. Edu-wonks everywhere are in for a feast.

Update: the last three papers have been released, and I added links to the summaries.