I: Introduction
In the United States, the state governments as a whole spends over 500 billion a year on education. Education is one of the largest, if not the largest, spending for all states and local governments. We will be looking at the amount of spending per pupil in state schools grades k-12. We will compare state versus state on the basis of spending per pupil.
Our dependent variable is spending per pupil. While our independent variables include average income, black population percentage, below poverty percentage, federal aid per capita, percent of population over 60, total population, state revenue, unemployment percentage, and urbanization percentage. We are looking at spending per pupil to determine the following questions. Where does this money go? What determines the amount of money given to each school?
We looked at other studies that researched similar topics. The articles went into deep detail on how funds are appropriated in higher education, the ethnic heterogeneity on education spending, current pressures and future trends of state education spending, and the demographic change of public education spending. These articles helped us to better understand funding appropriations and appropriate ways to build …show more content…
It was written by Ueli Grob who works for the University of Bern in Switzerland and by Stefan C. Wolter who works for the Swiss Coordination Center for Research in Education. This article takes an in depth look at the correlation of the elderly population and educational spending. The question asked if there is an increase in spending when the percentage of elderly people in the community increases. It talks about how “the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the concomitantly increasing proportion of elderly in the population can influence the propensity of politicians to spend on education” (Grob and Walter
In the United States, the state governments as a whole spends over 500 billion a year on education. Education is one of the largest, if not the largest, spending for all states and local governments. We will be looking at the amount of spending per pupil in state schools grades k-12. We will compare state versus state on the basis of spending per pupil.
Our dependent variable is spending per pupil. While our independent variables include average income, black population percentage, below poverty percentage, federal aid per capita, percent of population over 60, total population, state revenue, unemployment percentage, and urbanization percentage. We are looking at spending per pupil to determine the following questions. Where does this money go? What determines the amount of money given to each school?
We looked at other studies that researched similar topics. The articles went into deep detail on how funds are appropriated in higher education, the ethnic heterogeneity on education spending, current pressures and future trends of state education spending, and the demographic change of public education spending. These articles helped us to better understand funding appropriations and appropriate ways to build …show more content…
It was written by Ueli Grob who works for the University of Bern in Switzerland and by Stefan C. Wolter who works for the Swiss Coordination Center for Research in Education. This article takes an in depth look at the correlation of the elderly population and educational spending. The question asked if there is an increase in spending when the percentage of elderly people in the community increases. It talks about how “the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the concomitantly increasing proportion of elderly in the population can influence the propensity of politicians to spend on education” (Grob and Walter