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The Association Between School Spending And Academic Growth Among Seventh Grade Students In Michigan, Angela M. Jack
The Association Between School Spending And Academic Growth Among Seventh Grade Students In Michigan, Angela M. Jack
Wayne State University Dissertations
The purpose of this quantitative ex-post facto research study was two-fold: (a) to investigate the association, if any, between school spending and student academic performance, and (b) to identify what, if any, student and school-level structural characteristics mediated a relationship. Multilevel linear regression models were estimated to identify the association between total site-level per-pupil expenditures and school aggregated student academic growth measures in mathematics and ELA among 7th-grade students in Michigan for the 2018-2019 academic year. The data for 847 traditional public and charter public-school academies from 667 districts in Michigan were collected from the Michigan Center for Educational Performance …