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Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science

2010-02-11T07:56:00.000-08:00

The website of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science provides a lot of information on spatial analysis.

http://csiss.org/

Data handling in SAS

2010-01-22T00:30:00.000-08:00

Substring function with Index (separating a full name into first and last names):

DATA FIRST_LAST_NAME;
SET FULL_NAMES;
FORMAT FIRST_NAME $15. LAST_NAME $15.;
FIRST_NAME=SUBSTR(FULL_NAME,1,INDEX(FULL_NAME," "));
LAST_NAME=SUBSTR(FULL_NAME,INDEX(FULL_NAME," "));
RUN;

Public Administration - SSCI Journals

2010-01-07T13:48:00.000-08:00

Some SSCI public administration journals:

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL
PUBLIC CHOICE

Public Management Review
PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY

China & World Economy
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
CHINA JOURNAL
CHINA QUARTERLY
China Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China
CHINESE EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
Journal of Contemporary China
MODERN CHINA
International Public Management Journal
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Asian Survey

SSCI-Education journals

2009-02-06T19:35:00.000-08:00

Some educational journals that might be of interest:

ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW
EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION AND POLICY ANALYSIS
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL POLICY
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
KEDI Journal of Educational Policy
New Educational Review
REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
HARVARD EDUCATIONAL REVIEW
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION QUARTERLY
Asia Pacific Education Review
Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
CHINESE EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

South Carolina's property tax swap

2009-01-28T09:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.charleston.net/news/2009/jan/14/s_c_paying_piper_act_tax_cuts68293/

The Act 388 property tax reductions for homes were indeed popular, but an analysis by The Post and Courier found that they have made the state's budget crisis worse in several ways.

An $81 million shortfall in the sales tax collections that were supposed to fund property tax relief will account for about 15 percent of the gap anticipated in the next state budget. That means the state will have to cut spending elsewhere to pay for property tax breaks. That was not supposed to happen.

A growing shortfall

When Act 388 exempted owner-occupied homes from the property taxes that fund school operations, the law also increased the statewide sales tax to 6 cents on the dollar.

The Post and Courier

The sales tax increase was supposed to raise the roughly half-billion dollars schools used to collect from homes, and state economists predicted that the sales tax would raise enough to fund extra property tax relief.

Instead, there's been a growing shortfall every year, totalling $143 million since Act 388 was approved in 2006.

"If it hadn't been for the economy, there would have been more than enough," Read said. "They need to increase the sales tax if they need more money."

The Office of State Budget projects that sales taxes will rise enough to cover the tax shift in 2010, before falling short again in 2011. Unlike property taxes, sales tax collections tend to rise and fall with the economy, which nose-dived last year.

"We traded the most unpopular but most stable tax, the property tax, for the least unpopular but most unstable tax, the sales tax," state Board of Economic Advisors Chairman John Rainey said. "It's all snowballing."

House Majority Leader Kenny Bingham, R-Cayce, said it's appropriate to reduce taxes on basic needs such as homes, and the sales tax is preferred by voters.
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"It's how people prefer to be taxed," he said. "They don't like their home being taxed."

The property tax law requires the state to give school districts at least the amount of money they would have collected in property tax from exempted homes, with annual adjustments for population and inflation. However, the state can, and has, reduced other sources of funding to schools.

The Department of Education budget was cut by $253 million in the current state budget.

Stata codes for Gini and Theil decomposition

2008-10-18T00:01:00.000-07:00

ineqdeco does a good job in the decomposition of Theil index, which corresponds to "GE(1)" in ineqdeco's parlance. The by() option defines the subgroups for analysis.

descogini decomposes the Gini coefficient by income source and allows the calculation of the impact that a marginal change in a particular income source will have on inequality. descogini can be used with bootstrap to obtain standard errors and confidence intervals.

Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) show that the Gini coefficient for total income inequality, G, can be represented as G = sigma(Sk*Gk*Rk), where Sk represents the share of source k in total income, Gk is the source Gini corresponding to the distribution of income from source k, and Rk is the Gini correlation of income from source k with the distribution of total income. The influence of any income component upon total income inequality depends on:

• how important the income source is with respect to total income (Sk);
• how equally or unequally distributed the income source is (Gk); and
• how the income source and the distribution of total income are correlated (Rk).

The product of Gk and Rk is the pseudo Gini for each income source.

Be greedy when others are fearful

2008-10-17T11:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.cnbc.com/id/27231171/
Buy American. I am.
By Warren E. Buffett
The financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity will falter and headlines will continue to be scary.

So ... I’ve been buying American stocks. This is my personal account I’m talking about, in which I previously owned nothing but United States government bonds. (This description leaves aside my Berkshire Hathaway holdings, which are all committed to philanthropy.) If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.

Why?
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. To be sure, investors are right to be wary of highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions. But fears regarding the long-term prosperity of the nation’s many sound companies make no sense. These businesses will indeed suffer earnings hiccups, as they always have. But most major companies will be setting new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now.

Let me be clear on one point: I can’t predict the short-term movements of the stock market. I haven’t the faintest idea as to whether stocks will be higher or lower a month — or a year — from now. What is likely, however, is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over.

A little history here: During the Depression, the Dow hit its low, 41, on July 8, 1932. Economic conditions, though, kept deteriorating until Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933. By that time, the market had already advanced 30 percent. Or think back to the early days of World War II, when things were going badly for the United States in Europe and the Pacific. The market hit bottom in April 1942, well before Allied fortunes turned. Again, in the early 1980s, the time to buy stocks was when inflation raged and the economy was in the tank. In short, bad news is an investor’s best friend. It lets you buy a slice of America’s future at a marked-down price.

Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

You might think it would have been impossible for an investor to lose money during a century marked by such an extraordinary gain. But some investors did. The hapless ones bought stocks only when they felt comfort in doing so and then proceeded to sell when the headlines made them queasy.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Indeed, the policies that government will follow in its efforts to alleviate the current crisis will probably prove inflationary and therefore accelerate declines in the real value of cash accounts.

Equities will almost certainly outperform cash over the next decade, probably by a substantial degree. Those investors who cling now to cash are betting they can efficiently time their move away from it later. In waiting for the comfort of good news, they are ignoring Wayne Gretzky’s advice: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.”

I don’t like to opine on the stock market, and again I emphasize that I have no idea what the market will do in the short term. Nevertheless, I’ll follow the lead of a restaurant that opened in an empty bank building and then advertised: “Put your mouth where your money was.” Today my money and my mouth both say equities .

Inequality project University of Texas

2008-10-11T00:43:00.001-07:00

http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/tutorials.html

许巍 - 蓝莲花

2008-09-27T13:06:00.000-07:00

没有什么能够阻挡
你对自由地向往
天马行空的生涯
你的心了无牵挂
穿过幽暗地岁月
也曾感到彷徨
当你低头地瞬间
才发觉脚下的路
心中那自由地世界
如此的清澈高远
盛开着永不凋零
蓝莲花

Rueda Calls

2008-09-13T08:22:00.000-07:00

* Pa´abajo — closed position, girls step back both times, guys step forward with the right and to the side with the left
* Exhibela - girls do a full turn after the back rock step with the right foot
* Dile que no (dlqn) - cross body lead; guys turn to the side to create a "doorway" for the girls to walk straight through and face the guys at the last second
* Woperia - (not called) single hand hold, the basic position, both go back at the same time (girls with right and guys with left) and forward at same time
* Dame - everyone turns toward the middle of the circle, guys pick up the girl on your right, dlqn
* Enchufla - reverse underarm turn, pass partners
o Enchufla doble - begin enchufla, during the girls´ underarm turn guys put their right hands on the girls´ backs to stop them from making a full turn, girls come back out of the turn then everyone does an enchufla
o Enchufla festival - do enchufla three times, one immediately after the other, clap on the one beat
* Adios - same footwork as Enchufla for men, only starts with embrace hold before passing partners
o Adios con la hermana - do adios followed directly by enchufla; keep same partner through all
o Adios festival - 3 adios in a row, clapping in between passing of partners
* Vasila - both tap on 8, girls do full turn toward guys´ right side, then girls take three step back for the guy to pick them up, dlqn
* Suena - stomp toward middle of circle
* La bulla - this is called after suena, suena toward middle again and yell
* Sombrero - vasila with arms, meaning you start with double crossed hand-hold, right on bottom
* Balser - sombrero twice; girl passes behind guy in between the UATs
* Alrededor - turn toward middle, guys walk in front of and around girl to their right, girls walk behind and around guy to their left, dlqn
* Dame y no le llegues - guys turn right, girls left, as if going to do a dame, then guys do half turn while girls back rock, then everyone does second part of alrededor
* El medio - turn toward middle, everyone holds hands, guys rock into middle at the same time, then girls, then guys etc., do what is called (guys/girls to the left/right)
o La flor - after el medio is called, when rock into the middle sweep hands in circular motion from low to high
o Se fue is called to finish, guys do la flor and this time put arms on girls´ shoulders, girls then do the same to the guys
o leader can call ladies/gents to the left/right, in which case you move the called direction via inner circle
o Ladies/Gent Ocho: ladies, make figure 8 around two guy partners to left, starting back; gents, make figure 8 around two lady partners to right, starting forward
* Dame con los manos - open into dame, girls do left spin to each guy (remember "1,2,3 latch!") until sacabo called, at which time girls and guys take turn twisting into circle until se fue is called, then gentlemen to the right, end dlqn
* El dedo - single cross-hand hold, girl does under arm turn which end with her back toward the middle of the circle, girls do another under arm turn guys do one too, girls do one more underarm turn, dlqn
* Besito - sombrero turn, girl passes behind guy, hammerlock for "kiss," guy turns right out of it, loops right arm over head, dlqn
* Montana - el dedo with double cross hand hold
* Kentucky - double hand hold, like a sweetheart in swing, girl is in the guys’ arms goes from his right side to his left side then turn out from under, guy puts girls hand on his left shoulder, dlqn
* El Indio - right to right hand hold, begin enchufla; after the girls’ underarm turn, guys jump in to middle of circle on 7, dlqn
* Evelyn - starts like adios, but guys to spin their right and pass their hand to the girls’ right hand, dlqn
* El dos - single hand hold, enchufla but do not let go of partner as girls go behind guys, both rock step from side to side on opposite sides
o Se fue - guys switch grip in their right hands, bring the girl around to front while spinning them toward their right side (like sonbrero), dlqn
* Dame dos… - instead of the guys picking up the first girl on their right like in dame, they pick up the second girl on their right
* Siete - tap, girls wrap into guys’ left arm, tap, unwrap
o Siete con coca-cola - siete, full left UAT on 5,6,7 girls; follow by 360 degree dlqn
o Siete montana - siete con coca-cola, only lead switches to girl's left hand after curls in
o Siete loco - siete, establish cross-hand hold at curl in, left UAT and 360 degree dlqn; tap on 8; both spin under (guy's left) with hand hold maintained; girl ends up on guy's right side with arms crossed in front; do two enchuflas maintaining two-hand hold; dlqn
* "called move" Y Ariba - guy does not pass around his partner to pick up girl to the right as usual, but rather continues forward to pick up girl to left with normal dlqn
* "called move" Dame Una - tagged onto end of moves where usually keep partner; this tag asks you to go ahead and pass your partner for the next
* DGB (Dedo Guarapo Y Bota) - starts like el dedo, guy places hand on right shoulder as turns left to face partner on 5,6,7; place both hands around girl's waist as both spin to man's right; pick up next girl, qlqn
* Abrazala - starts like el dedo, girl passes back of guy while he establishes hammerlock; hug 5,6,7; guy turn to right; enchufla; dlqn (similar to a one-handed Besito)
* Paseala - on dame, girl dances full circle around guy over 8 counts
* Setenta - two-hand hold, tap to center on 8; right UAT for girl, establish hammerlock for girl; step 5,6,7; push hip of girl to lead into left UAT girl; right hand over man's head as realign to center; dlqn
* Habana - two-hand hold, cuddle twice (like Kentucky), third time enchufla, followed by setenta
* Cinturon - start adios embrace but swith lady's hand behind her back to ask right turn (establishes cross hold); two sets of el dedo reverse UAT for lady; dlqn with right-to-right hold
* 3-way stop - tap 8, partners face outside circle with girl infront, girl turns L then R, then both turn L, ask for dlqn but both spin out of it to go to next partner
* Cadeneta - chain move with enchuflas and exibelas until call se fue; end with coca-cola, vasila dame una
* Juana la Cubana -
* Ponle Sabor - cross-hand hold; guy behind girl twice; @ the end of second time – he turns; she turns – he turns; enchufla; he turns ccw; ask her to turn clock-wise but stop her left hand with your left hand half way through; turn her around; dlqn
* Bebe -
* Sambuca -

弦子-醉清风

2008-09-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

Having fun with Tablet

2008-08-22T19:11:00.001-07:00

SAS: converting variable types from character to numeric (and vice versa)

2008-08-05T13:32:00.000-07:00

The following SAS code demonstrates character to numeric and numeric to character conversion:

/* convert character to numeric */
new_num=input(char4,best4.);

/* convert numeric to character */
new_char=put(numeric,4.0);

http://www.pauldickman.com/teaching/sas/char_to_num.php

Remove leading space in Excel

2008-07-31T22:02:00.000-07:00

Sometimes the trim() function does not work when those leading spaces aren't your standard leading spaces, char 32! They may be some other unseen character like the dreaded char 160.

Try finding out what the actual characters are. Use this formula in a temporary helper column:

=CODE(B2)

Once you know what those characters are then they should be fairly easy to get rid of using either Edit>Replace or, maybe a formula like:

=MID(B2,2,255)

Or:

=SUBSTITUTE(B2,LEFT(B2)," ")

Then you could convert the formulas to constants by doing a Copy>Paste Special Values. Then deleting the original data.

Unfortunately, none of the above worked for me.

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(B2,LEFT(B2)," ")) could work, but when the leading characters are not char 63, but 49 or 50 etc., the first digit of the numbers got trimmed. Finally, I found two ways that work for me:

=IF(CODE(LEFT(B2))=63,TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(B2,LEFT(B2)," ")),B2), or simply

=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(B2,CHAR(63)," "))

A useful link: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall
(look for "Sub Trimall()")

我的姓氏图腾

2008-07-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

现在搞清楚自己的姓氏图腾，原来是一个翘着小辫子顶着金冠，貌似天山童姥似的一个小妇人；再一看神情倒也欢快，两只脚开开的似向上跳跃状，又让人想起豆腐西施来；想来王姓源自爵位，不论是“姬姓”(周代王族)之王，或子姓如“汲郡王氏”(商代比干后裔)之王，或“妫姓”(舜帝之后)，或“虏姓”(由少数民族汉化)，无一不是王公贵胄，再看看这图腾确实有几分像鼎，原来权位和女人在不仅有着内在联系，形貌上也是有几分相似的，古今皆同～～～

Graph Lorenz Curve

2008-07-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

Stata glcurve:
Given a variable varname, call it x with c.d.f. F(x), glcurve draws its generalized Lorenz curve and/or generates two new variables containing the generalized Lorenz ordinates for x; i.e., GL(p) at each p = F(x). For a population ordered in ascending order of x, a graph of GL(p) against p plots the cumulative total of x divided by population size against cumulative population share GL(1) = mean(x). glcurve can also be used to derive many other related concepts such as Lorenz curves, concentration curves, and "three is of poverty" (TIP) curves, with appropriate definition of varname, order of cumulation (set with the sortvar option), and normalization (e.g., by means of varname). glcurve with the lorenz, atip, or rtip option can also be used directly to draw the related Lorenz, concentration, and TIP curves.

The graphs drawn by glcurve are relatively basic. For graphs with full user control over formatting and labeling, users should use glcurve to generate the ordinates of the graph required using the pvar(newvarname) and glvar(newvarname) options and then should draw the graph by using graph twoway.

World Bank Poverty Analysis Toolkit

2008-07-28T16:44:00.000-07:00

Stata programs (all of which work under STATA 8/9) for poverty dynamic analysis:
* Growth-inequality decomposition
* Sectoral decomposition of inequality
* Growth Incidence Curve
* Stochastic Dominance Poverty Analysis
* egen extention functions for inequality and poverty measures
* Fast algorithm for calculation of Gini coefficient and it's jackknife standard errors

http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?theSitePK=477894&contentMDK=20292195&menuPK=546578&pagePK=64168182&piPK=64168060#gid

The Hamilton Project

2008-07-28T09:11:00.000-07:00

The Hamilton Project produces research and policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans. The Hamilton Project’s economic strategy reflects a judgment that long term prosperity is best achieved by making economic growth broad-based, by enhancing individual economic security, and by embracing a role for effective government in making needed public investments.

http://www.brookings.edu/PROJECTS/HAMILTONPROJECT.ASPX

China's rural tax revolution

2008-07-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

BBC news: In many parts of China, local officials imposed dozens of other illegal charges - from fees for growing bananas to taxes on slaughtering pigs - either to top up the local finances or to pad their own pockets. It has left a legacy of bad feeling. In neighbouring Jiangxi province, two farmers were killed last year when police stormed a village where peasants were protesting against excessive taxes.

At the Anhui provincial finance bureau, Wang Jianguo, who is overseeing the tax reforms, said the illegal charges are often made because local officials want to do something for their area - like build a road - but lack the funds. So they turn to the farmers.

Under Anhui's reforms, villagers pay only a reduced land tax, plus a small fixed surcharge to the village authorities. All other fees and taxes have been abolished, with stiff penalties for officials who try to reimpose them.

"So the farmers are more motivated to work and the officials no longer have to spend so much of their time collecting money, so they can concentrate on what they should be doing - like planning ways to develop the local economy," he said.

Spending worries

Their fervour may have been increased by the fact that their families no longer have to pay the local education surcharge, which used to fund half the school's running costs. But in the county governments, which must now take responsibility for funding education, the initial reaction has been one of anxiety.

China's leaders have now sought to reassure the localities by pledging the biggest ever direct subsidy for rural education and more funding for other local government functions.

But local bureaucracies have also been ordered to save money by cutting jobs. The reforms also remove their right to demand up to four weeks' unpaid labour each year from farmers for public works projects like irrigation.

Officials in Anhui describe the tax reforms as another revolution for the Chinese countryside. They have been seen as a key attempt by the communist party to tackle the roots of dissatisfaction among the peasants who brought it to power.

Yet Anhui is by no means China's poorest province. It may require an unprecedented level of extra funding to rural areas to ensure that the reforms succeed across the country and keep China's farmers smiling.

Ways to import excel and dat files into SAS

2008-07-27T14:36:00.000-07:00

1. SAS Version 9 offers the Excel libname engine:
LIBNAME libref

;
LIBNAME libref CLEAR;

The CLEAR option closes the workbook connection when finished so the workbook can be opened or moved.

2

. Import dat file into SAS:

DATA ussd95;
INFILE 'C:\...\ussd95.dat' termstr=crlf;
INPUT V1 $ 1-2 V2 $ 5-9 V3 $ 11-45 v4 47-54 v5 56-63 v6 65-72 v7 $ 74-93;
leaid=cats(of v1 v2); /*Concatenating string variables; leading or trailing blanks*/

rename v3=name;
RUN;

SAS macro for importing multiple excel files in a folder

2008-07-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

/***************************************/
/* import multiple files in a folder */;
/***************************************/

%MACRO _import(list=, range=);
%LET num=1;
%LET wkbnm=%SCAN(&list,&num);
%PUT file &num = &wkbnm;

%DO %WHILE(&wkbnm NE );

PROC IMPORT DATAFILE= "C:\...\&wkbnm..xls"
OUT = &wkbnm DBMS=excel REPLACE;
RANGE= "Year by Year$&range";
GETNAMES=no;
RUN;

%LET num=%eval(&num+1);
%LET wkbnm=%scan(&list,&num);

%END;

%MEND _import(list=, range=);

/*read in multiple sas files and add file names as ID variable*/
%macro add_filename_as_var(file_list=, n_files=, outfile=);

/*make sure no &outfile exists before running macro add_filename_as_var()*/
%do i_id=1 %to &n_files;
%let id=%qscan(&file_list, &i_id);
DATA _tmp; SET &id;
length county $20;
county="&id";
run;
proc append data = _tmp base = &outfile;
run;
%end;
%mend add_filename_as_var;

/*creat list of file names*/
%let file_list=%str( ); /*insert file names here*/

%let range_list=C182:J184 C185:J186... ;

%macro mm;
%do i_range=1 %to 2 /*depending on the number of range list*/;
%_import(list=&file_list, range=%qscan(&range_list,&i_range));

/*make sure no &outfile exists before running macro add_filename_as_var()*/
%add_filename_as_var(file_list=&file_list, n_files=100, outfile=_out&i_range);

DATA _out&i_range;
SET _out&i_range;
if F3=. then delete; /*delete rows that have no data*/
RUN;
%end;
%mend mm;
%mm;

The House passed school facilities act

2008-07-23T23:43:00.000-07:00

Public school facilities across the country received a much-needed boost last week when the House passed the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act.

But the bill – H.R. 3021 – is awaiting Senate approval, and the White House has “threatened a veto, saying it was wrong for the federal government to launch a costly new school building program,” according to the Associated Press.

The bill would provide funding to states and school districts to help ensure school facilities and learning environments are safe, healthy, energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and up to date technologically. The bill authorizes $6.4 billion for school renovation and modernization projects for fiscal year 2009.

State building aid programs

2008-07-23T15:12:00.001-07:00

I have been trying to update the information I collected for state aid programs for school facilities. It's hard to collect accurate information for the funding formulas for all the state aid programs, but any progress on this will be a great contribution.

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/maintenance/a_C.asp

http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/capitalprograms.cfm

http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/statelocal_funding.cfm

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/43/10.pdf

http://mlis.state.md.us/other/education/public_school_facilities/Review_Other_States_091802.pdf

http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/publications/modelpolicies/FacilitiesFundingSectionMay2005.pdf

http://www.nga.org/cda/files/000620SCHOOLNEEDS.pdf

APPAM 2008

2008-07-23T13:58:00.000-07:00

Thirtieth Annual APPAM Research Conference
6-8 November, 2008 - Wilshire Grand Hotel - Los Angeles, CA
The Next Decade - What Are the Big Policy Challenges?

ABFM 2008

2008-07-23T13:53:00.000-07:00

2Oth Annual Conference of ABFM
October 23-25, 2008
Chicago Mart Plaza, Holiday Inn
River North
312.361.0648

Conference rate for single room is $159.00, plus state and local taxes
Hotel webpage: http://martplaza-px.trvlclick.com

Just to get organized

2008-07-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

I created a blog quite a while ago, but never used it to get my stuff organized. Now it's the time.