ECS regularly issues useful compilations, summaries and/or comparisons of state policies — enacted or pending — on a wide variety of education topics, listed on the right. For a list of our most current documents, please see our What's New page.
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School/District Structure/Operations
 From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Staffing Ratios - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
The GE Foundation's Foray into Urban School Improvement - Hear Robert Corcoran talk about the tremendous resources the GE Foundation has committed to education over the past several years. He was speaking at the 2011 ECS National Forum on Education Policy....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Shared Services - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: Postsecondary Finance--Facilities - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
What Governors Need to Know: Highlights of State Education Systems  PDF - This multistate compilation includes states' number of operating districts, average students per district, per-student spending, free or reduced-price lunch eligible students, percent of K-12 revenue from state sources, state and local school revenue, full-day kindergarten requirements, compulsory school ages and more. (Kyle Zinth and Melodye Bush, Education Commission of the States, updated December 2010)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
Comprehensive State Facility Programs  MS Word PDF - In the 2005-06 school year $54.3 billion was spent on public school facilities in the United States and an additional $16.3 billion was spent on interest on the debt from previous school facilities projects. In most states the majority of funding for school facilities comes from the individual school districts – usually through local property tax levies. Fiscal studies have shown that funding systems that rely too greatly on local school district funding can result in a vast disparity in the quantity and quality of school facilities between high- and low-wealth school districts. This ECS StateNote examines comprehensive state facility programs, those which have increased funding levels and attempted to direct more funding toward low-income/low-property-wealth school districts. (Michael Griffith and Stephanie Fonda, Education Commission of the States, January 2007)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
National Spending on Capital Outlay MS Word - According to the Digest of Education Statistics 2002, published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), capital outlay spending for education facilities in the United States for 1999-2000 totaled $43.4 billion and interest on school debt came to $9.1 billion. According to this same report, nationally 13.8% of all education spending during 1999-2000 was spent on these two categories. A breakdown of total education spending from 1919 to 2000 is illustrated in the table below. (Education Commission of the States, February 2004)...
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: Finance--Facilities - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--District Consolidation/Deconsolidation - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--District Size - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--Libraries - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
From the ECS State Policy Database: School/District Structure/Operations--School Size - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....
School Districts: State Realignment Activities MS Word - School district realignment activities in the states. (Education Commission of the States, September 1996)...
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