State Education Governance Study (SEGS)
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State Education Governance Study (SEGS) |
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With support from the
Spencer Foundation (grant
#200700134), the State
Education Governance Study (SEGS) is examining two overall research
questions: How
do the institutional relationships between governors, state
legislators, state
education departments, and state boards of education influence K-12
education
policy outputs and student academic outcomes?
How do state education finance systems, comprised of revenues
from state,
federal, and local sources, influence these same policy outputs and
student
outcomes? The project considers these questions during the years
1975-2005, a period of dramatic change in education policy at the state
and national levels.
Here is the grant proposal, and here is a report on activities the grant supported, many of which are still ongoing.
Contact Paul Manna with questions about the study (pmanna@wm.edu; 757-221-3024).
Financing education in the statesOn average, the states and local governments each contribute a little more than 45 percent of the revenues that fund k-12 education, and the federal government share is about 8 percent. But across states and time, those numbers have varied a lot. Run the following applet to see variation in federal and state contributions from 1975-76 to 2003-04.
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Pilot StudiesPaul Manna and Amanda Guthrie. 2008. Leadership continuity and educational performance in the American states. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago. Paul Manna and K.C. Tydgat. 2008. Gatekeepers to the classroom: The influence of state teacher standards boards on state teacher policy. Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans. Paul Manna. 2006. How governance of K-12 education influences policy outputs and student outcomes in the United States. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia. Paul Manna and Diane O'Hara.
2005. State governance and educational outcomes in the United
States. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
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Paul Manna, Principal Investigator. Paul arrived at William and Mary in 2003 and teaches courses on American public policy, education, and research methods. He has published work on the No Child Left Behind Act, charter schools, school vouchers, and collective bargaining. His book, School's In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda (Georgetown University Press, 2006) examines the evolution of elementary and secondary education policy in the United States since the 1960s.
Amanda Guthrie, Research Assistant. Amanda is a senior at William and Mary, majoring in mathematics and public policy. She has worked on several dimensions of the SEGS project including collecting quantitative data, conducing archival research, and designing methods to display SEGS data using geographical information systems (GIS) software.
Chad Aldeman, Research Assistant. Chad graduated in 2006 from the University of Iowa with a BA in Public Policy Studies with emphases in education, social welfare, and urban and regional development policy. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in W&M's Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy. For SEGS, Chad has analyzed changes in state education finance. He has interned and continues to collaborate with researchers at Education Sector.
Kathryn "K.C." Tydgat, Research Assistant. K.C. is a 2007 graduate of William and Mary where she was a public policy major and German minor. Presently, she is a master's degree candidate in public administration at the University of North Carolina. KC's work with SEGS includes collection of quantitative data, archival research, with a particular focus on state teacher policy.
Nick Bahnsen, Research Assistant. Nick is a senior at William and Mary, majoring in public policy and minoring in accounting. Nick's work on the project has included gathering data on state legislative institutions, and helping to organize and content analyze several documentary sources acquired from archives and other sites.
Jeanette Snider, Research Assistant. Jeanette is a junior government major at William and Mary. Her work with SEGS has focused on content analyzing archival and other documents.
Meghan Dunne , Research Assistant. Meghan is a junior public policy major at William and Mary. She has focused on case study work and some data cleaning.
Erica Parker, Research Assistant and Technology Fellow. Erica completed her work on the project in May 2007, which included tracking state education policy changes and becoming the project's expert on the use of geographical information systems software (GIS) to present state-level data. Presently, she is employed as an analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, DC.