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Educational Need and Its Application to State School Finance

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  • Walter I. Garms
  • Mark C. Smith

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This article reports the results of an effort to use local school personnel to gather socioeconomic data on students that would be highly predictive of educational achievement, and to use the information so gathered as the basis for a formula that would distribute state school aid to schools on the basis of their educational need. School secretaries in 45 New York elementary schools, using only written instructions, gathered data for a sample of students on six socio-economic variables: ethnic background, broken homes, welfare, overcrowded housing, student mobility, and parents' education. In a multiple regression, using the school as the unit of analysis, these variables explain 75 percent of the variation in student achievement. Based on the regression equation, the article defines as a unit of educational need the Need Weighted Average Daily Attendance (NWADA) and shows how this unit may be used in a state school-support formula.

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  • Walter I. Garms & Mark C. Smith, 1970. "Educational Need and Its Application to State School Finance," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 5(3), pages 304-317.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:5:y:1970:i:3:p:304-317
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