Research Grants in Progress
Jason Grissom
This study will analyze how the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) school funding reform changes district revenues and resource allocations in its initial years.
June 2025
June 2025
Lang (Kate) Yang
This study will examine school districts' general fund balances and their relationship with state policy, district characteristics, and spending volatility by analyzing district fund balance data.
August 2025
August 2025
Emily Gutierrez
This study will collect and analyze the state-by-state social safety net eligibility requirements and direct certification programs to demonstrate the differences in "direct certification" across states and explore the implications for how these factors affect the number of students identified as low income in many state funding formulas.
November 2025
November 2025
Claire Cahen
This project proposes the creation of a dataset to better estimate the facility needs of each school district in California in advance of future state bonds for school repairs.
December 2025
December 2025
Emily Rauscher
This project will compile a dataset that links revenue information for PTAs and other school-supporting non-profits (SSNPs) with districts and assess how the amount of SSNP revenues varies with local revenue caps and other features of state funding formulas.
June 2026
June 2026
L. Harris, C. Moreira, A. Rajan
This study seeks to assess the impact of Texas' Teacher Incentive Allotment on the teacher labor market and student outcomes.
June 2026
June 2026
University of Pittsburgh
Joshua Bleiberg
This qualitative study will track the legislative process of Pennsylvania's 2023 court-ordered school finance reform in order to understand how outside influences affect the formula that is ultimately passed by the state in the wake of the court ruling.
June 2026
June 2026
Megan Griffard
This study will examine the factors associated with districts' ability to distribute funds to schools in a manner that is aligned with the weights outlined in Nevada's weighted student funding formula.
June 2026
June 2026
David Knight
This study will investigate how complex tax environments resulting from overlapping taxing jurisdictions, as well as recent reforms to tax levy lids, may contribute to school finance inequity by analyzing property tax and school finance data from Washington state.
June 2026
June 2026
Elizabeth Dhuey
This study will examine whether and in what ways local revenues explain differences in the percentage of students identified for special education. It will also examine what is spent, on average, to provide special education services to students with disabilities, after controlling for differences in student need across districts by disentangling the effects of local wealth from the effects of local fiscal effort in WA.
June 2026
June 2026
Christopher Cleveland
This study will examine which district and school factors contribute to changes in special education expenditures over time in Massachusetts and will compare districts differentially affected by the MA state aid formula to determine how the formula shapes expenditures in those districts.
June 2026
June 2026