Does Money Matter in Pennsylvania? School District Spending and Student Proficiency Since No Child Left Behind

Sean Flaherty ()
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Sean Flaherty: Department of Economics, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, USA.

Eastern Economic Journal, 2013, vol. 39, issue 2, 145-171

Abstract: Using data spanning school years 2000–2001 through 2008–2009 and across 500 school districts, I find a positive and statistically significant relationship between a district's rate of increase in spending on regular instruction and the percentage by which its students’ “passing rate” improves on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests. This relationship is most pronounced for student cohorts who took the tests initially as 5th graders and later as 8th graders; it is evident as well for 8th–11th grade cohorts. The relationship is likewise more pronounced when the focus is restricted to test outcomes among demographic subgroups.

Date: 2013
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