No Child Left Behind and Administrative Costs: A Resource Dependence Study of Local School Districts

Autor/in	Neely, Stephen R.
Titel	No Child Left Behind and Administrative Costs: A Resource Dependence Study of Local School Districts
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23 (2015) 26, (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068 2341
Schlagwörter	Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; Expenditures; School Districts; Educational Policy; Accountability; Federal Aid; Educational Finance; Effect Size; Costs; Educational Administration; Longitudinal Studies; Census Figures; Statistical Analysis; Elementary Secondary Education; Regression (Statistics); Connecticut; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Vermont; Washington; Wisconsin + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; Ausgaben; School district; Schulbezirk; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Verantwortung; Bildungsfonds; Cost; Kosten; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Volkszählung; Statistische Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	This study considers the impact of federal funding on the administrative expenditures of local school districts since the passage of the No-Child-Left-Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. Under NCLB, federal education funds were made contingent upon a variety of accountability and reporting standards, creating new administrative costs and challenges for local school districts. According to the premises of resource dependence theory, these increases in administrative costs will likely be most pronounced among those local districts with the greatest reliance on federal revenue. Repeated measures models are constructed for a multi-state sample of public school districts to test the extent to which these policy changes may be influencing administrative expenditures at the local level. While effect sizes are small, the results do demonstrate a significant resource dependence effect, suggesting that districts with greater reliance on federal revenue are experiencing larger increases in administrative expenditures over time. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01