The Florida Education Finance Program has as its stated goal the equalization of educational opportunity. The state funding formula recognizes that districts have different tax bases, varying program cost factors, district cost differentials, and differences in cost for equivalent programs due to sparsity and dispersion factors. / The project is an evaluation of the equalization effort made in the distribution of educational resources in Florida. It differs from the traditional analytical approach in that it focuses on the intradistrict allocation of resources rather than considering district averages across the state. / This study analyzes the distribution of resources, measured as instructional expenditures, in the elementary schools in Florida. The school is the unit of analysis and only districts having at least 30 elementary schools will be included in the intradistrict study. / The dependent variables are based in four alternative definitions of instructional expenditures/FTE adjusted for programmatic and district cost differentials. Independent variables include school size, student race and socioeconomic status. Descriptive and causal analysis is presented using distributive, correlational and regression-based measures. / Findings suggest that expenditures do differ substantially between schools within a district and that in many district these differences follow racial and income lines. In statewide comparisons the differences in instructional expenditures exceed 300% and are similarly associated with racial and income differences among student populations. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2462. / Major Professor: Steven J. Klees. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76957 |
| Contributors | Owens, James Thomas, Jr., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 251 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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