ABSTRACT

We exploit differences in state special education funding systems based on special education enrollment (‘bounty systems’) or on total student enrollment (‘census systems’) to assess whether funding systems impact teacher turnover, teacher specialty, special education enrollment, state education spending, average class sizes, and teacher effort. We find that census funding decreases special education enrollment and increases turnover among special education teachers. Relative to their counterparts, special education teachers are 5 percentage points more likely to move across schools and 18 percentage points more likely to switch to general education teaching after the implementation of census funding in their state.

摘要

我们利用基于特殊教育招生（“赏金制度”）或学生总人数（“人口普查系统”）的州特殊教育资助体系的差异来评估资助体系是否影响教师流动、教师专业、特殊教育招生、州教育支出、平均班级人数和教师的努力。我们发现人口普查资金减少了特殊教育入学人数并增加了特殊教育教师的流动率。与同行相比，在本州实施人口普查资助后，特殊教育教师在学校之间流动的可能性要高 5 个百分点，而转向通识教育教学的可能性要高 18 个百分点。