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Fiscal Implications of Changing School Enrollments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Theodore R. Alter  and
Dan E. Moore
Theodore R. Alter
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
Dan E. Moore
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Two topics dominate discussions of public elementary and secondary education. The first is declining enrollments and the second is fiscal problems, especially those problems associated with such catch words as equity, taxpayer revolt, and tax reform. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between these two topics by examining enrollment change and fiscal characteristics in 504 Pennsylvania school districts. Our purpose is to provide a descriptive base for further research on the fiscal problems raised by changing school enrollments.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 177 - 189
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This is Paper No. 5766 in the Journal Series of The Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. Partial support for this study was provided by a grant from the Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources, The Pennsylvania State University. We gratefully acknowledge the generous assistance of the following persons from the Pennsylvania Department of Education in providing the necessary enrollment and financial data for our analysis: Paul C. Shatto, Jr., Seon H. Cho, Philip J. Mulvihill, Dominic R. Lattanzio, and Bruce Cowling. We also thank Robert C. Lloyd, Wendy L. Rome, and David Witt for their help in preparing the data for analysis. In addition, critical reviews by Sam M. Cordes and two anonymous reviewers made important contributions toward improving the initial draft of this paper. Any errors in analysis or interpretation, of course, rest with us.

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