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Latest Paper Focuses on School Finance Policy and Civil Rights

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 2 comments

By Amanda Nelson LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 8, 2022) — A newly published analysis of how dollars are distributed to schools in the U.S. posits that funding allocation models continue to disadvantage those in low-income communities, despite long-standing evidence that equitable funding is critical to students’ capacity to learn and achieve. An Opportunity to Learn: Engaging in the Praxis of School Finance Policy and Civil

The Real Scandal Over Buying an Education

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig One comment

The recent college admissions scandal reaffirms that in the United States you can buy better education—legally and illegally. While financial resources and a better education share an obvious connection, for decades a small but powerful cadre of researchers has argued that money doesn’t matter for educational success. This trope has been music to the fiscal conservatives’ ears. The usual suspects pulled in

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Breaking News: Community-based Funding and Accountability working in California

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Leave a comment

I am currently sitting in the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) annual conference being held in Sacramento. A new study just dropped that show money clearly matters in California school finance and that it has had a positive impact on student achievement and graduation rates across the state. View this post on Instagram Spending my morning learning about new

Talking School Choice and NC Insanity on @RickSmithShow

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Leave a comment

On the Rick Smith Show we discussed school finance lawsuits, the false promise of charters, privatization of the $1 Trillion education spending in the US, market based reform, North Carolina bathrooms (oh, and their education “reforms”) and more. On Air Now @ProfessorJVH talking #Education in #NorthCarolina #TBATs @BadassTeachersA #BATsradio — Rick Smith (@RickSmithShow) April 25, 2016 In 2005, The

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Q: Do Charters Spend More on Administration? A: Yes

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig 6 comments

I received a question over email querying if charters spend more on administration aka school leadership. I used t-tests to compare school leadership per pupil spending means from the 2010-2011 school finance data (the most recent cleaned dataset on my laptop) for all schools in Texas. Here is what I found: In elementary, charters spend $147 more per pupil than