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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?

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dc.contributor.authorEhrenberg, Ronald G.
dc.contributor.authorEhrenberg, Randy A.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Christopher L.
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Liang
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T16:57:57Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T16:57:57Z
dc.date.issued2003-07-15
dc.description.abstract[Excerpt] Public elementary and secondary education is financed in many states at least partially at the local level and school district budgets in many states are determined by voter referenda. To date, however, there have been no studies that sought to explain why the proportion of school district budget proposals in a state that are approved by voters in referenda varies over time. Similarly no research has used panel data on school districts to test whether budget referenda failures are concentrated in a small number of school districts within a state and whether the failure of a budget referendum in a school district in one year influences the likelihood that voters in the district subsequently defeat a budget referendum in the next year. Our paper uses data from school budget votes in New York State to answer these questions.
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dc.identifier.other380837
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/74661
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: Published by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, Cornell University.
dc.subjectpublic education
dc.subjectschool district budgets
dc.subjectvoter referenda
dc.subjectNew York State school districts
dc.titleWhy Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationEhrenberg, Ronald G.: rge2@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationEhrenberg, Randy A.: North Colonie NY Central School District
local.authorAffiliationSmith, Christopher L.: MIT
local.authorAffiliationZhang, Liang: Cornell University

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