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Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education

• AIR’s most recent work in the area of adequacy is the recently completed Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education, a fifteen-month project to determine the cost of providing all New York public school students an “adequate” education. "Costing out" is a term regularly applied to this type of analysis of adequacy in education. In the course of this endeavor, AIR worked with Management and Analysis Planning, Inc., to obtain input from professional educators, taxpayers, school board members, parents, legislators, and other constituencies.
• New York Adequacy Report (Vol. 1) available online [pdf]
• Detailed Appendices (Vol. 2) available online [pdf]
• AIR's approach to evaluating adequacy and school funding is available online [pdf].

Center for Special Education Finance and Special Education Expenditure Project

• Under the auspices of the previously mentioned Center for Special Education Finance (CSEF), AIR has conducted the Special Education Expenditure Project (SEEP) and has produced several reports and articles. The SEEP reports and articles are available at
  http://www.csef-air.org/pub_seep.php,
  and the CSEF publications are located at
  http://www.csef-air.org/pub_csef.php

National Center for Education Statistics Reports and Publications

Jay Chambers and Joel Sherman have led a number of studies funded by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). These publications can be found on the following web pages:

• Resources in Education: From Accounting to the Resource Cost Model Approach http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=199916
• Geographic Variations in Public Schools' Costs http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=9804
• Improving the Measurement of Staffing Resources at the School Level: The Development of Recommendations for NCES for the Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS) http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=9742
• Measuring Inflation in Public School Costs http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=9743
• The Patterns of Teacher Compensation http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=95829
• Public School Teacher Cost Differences Across the United States http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=95758

Also available at the NCES website are Dr. Chambers’ Cost of Education Index data sets for the 1987-1988, 1990-1991, and 1993-1994 school years: http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/prodsurv/data.asp

Other Publications and Products

AIR’s team of education finance researchers has produced several other reports and articles as well. These include the final report from theCalifornia Study of Incidence of Disabilities, and the final report from AIR’s study Policies, Procedures, and Practices Affecting the Education of Children Residing in Group Homes. These reports, along with several other publications related to education finance, can be found at http://www.csef-air.org/pub_related.php.