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Figure 2.1: California’s School Finance System
Note: Adapted from The basics of California’s school finance system by EdSource
2009a, pp. 1. Copyright 2008 by EdSource. Adapted with permission.
Response to fiscal crisis. As the United States continues to face one of the worst
economic crises since the Great Depression, California has been one of the hardest-hit
states (EdSource, 2010c; Kimitto, Parrish & Shambaugh, 2010). However, the situation
in California is not solely a making of recent of events, but rather an accumulation of
ineffective and complicated approaches as described earlier, to addressing educational
funding (EdSource, 2010c). Billions of dollars have been reduced and cut from the
budget and districts intern have been forced to reduce teaching and classified positions,
eliminate programs, mandate furloughs and pay cuts, and reduce classified staff in order
to meet their shrinking budgets (EdSource, 2010c). Even prior to the budget cuts,
California per pupil spending was one of the lowest in the country (EdSource, 2009a). In
Object Description
| Title | Allocation of educational resources to improve student achievement: Case studies of four California charter schools |
| Author | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Author email | rpatrick@usc.edu; ramonakaypatrick@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-28 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Charter schools are growing at a rapid pace have significantly more flexibility in their allocation of resources in comparison to their traditional public school counterparts in California. Because of this, it is important to study how successful charter schools, with this increased flexibility, are utilizing their resources to achieve high results with their students in a time of fiscal constraint. There is a plethora of data and research on effective school practices to improve student achievement, but a dearth of research on the effective allocation of resources at charter schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze how four high performing charter schools, with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Los Angeles, California, are implementing school improvement strategies and utilizing resources at their school site to impact student achievement. The Evidenced-Based Model, (Odden & Picus, 2008) along with Odden and Archibald’s (2009) Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance were used as a lens in this study to compare resource allocation as well as school improvement strategies to best support student achievement at the schools. This study will describe each schools’ instructional vision and improvement strategy, how resources are utilized to implement their instructional improvement plan, how the current fiscal crisis is affecting their allocation of resources, and how actual resource patterns are aligned with the Evidence Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008). |
| Keyword | charter schools; resource allocation; evidenced-based model |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3815 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Patrick-4438 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Patrick-4438.pdf |
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| Title | Page 27 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 19 Figure 2.1: California’s School Finance System Note: Adapted from The basics of California’s school finance system by EdSource 2009a, pp. 1. Copyright 2008 by EdSource. Adapted with permission. Response to fiscal crisis. As the United States continues to face one of the worst economic crises since the Great Depression, California has been one of the hardest-hit states (EdSource, 2010c; Kimitto, Parrish & Shambaugh, 2010). However, the situation in California is not solely a making of recent of events, but rather an accumulation of ineffective and complicated approaches as described earlier, to addressing educational funding (EdSource, 2010c). Billions of dollars have been reduced and cut from the budget and districts intern have been forced to reduce teaching and classified positions, eliminate programs, mandate furloughs and pay cuts, and reduce classified staff in order to meet their shrinking budgets (EdSource, 2010c). Even prior to the budget cuts, California per pupil spending was one of the lowest in the country (EdSource, 2009a). In |
