Donors and Founders on Charter School Boards and Their Impact on Financial and Academic Outcomes

Elif Sisli Ciamarra and Charisse Glosino ()
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Charisse Glosino: University of Memphis

No 95, Working Papers from Brandeis University, Department of Economics and International Business School

Abstract: This study provides the first systematic analysis of the composition of charter school governing boards. We assemble a dataset of charter school boards in Massachusetts between 2001 and 2013 and investigate the consequences of donor and founder representation on governing boards. We find that the presence of donors on the charter school boards is positively related to financial performance and attribute this result to the donors' strong monitoring incentives due to their financial stakes in the school. We also show that financial outcomes are not generated at the expense of academic outcomes, as the presence of donors on the boards is also associated with higher student achievement. Founder presence on charter school boards, on the other hand is associated with lower financial performance, but higher academic achievement.

Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2015-09
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