Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP)
Conferences
Teacher Quality and
Teacher Retention Conference
May 2005
With support from the
Center for Policy Research, Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP) held a conference on Teacher Quality and
Teacher Retention in May 2005. Scholars from around the country joined
EFAP faculty and students at this conference, which involved the presentation
of eight papers over two days. These papers examined the impacts of
various state policies on teacher attraction and teacher retention, with a
focus on policies that might be used to attract and retain teachers in
high-poverty school districts. Revised versions of the papers presented
at this conference were published in a special issue of the professional
journal Public Finance Review.
State Aid to Education Conference
April 2002
With the support of
The Maxwell School and The Center for Policy Research, Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP) held a conference
on State Aid to Education in April 2002. Twenty distinguished scholars
participated as paper authors or discussants, two of them via video-conference
from the University of Michigan. The
conference was also attended by several other scholars, several public
officials from around New York State, representatives of non-profit
organizations, and faculty and graduate students from The Maxwell School. Revised versions of the papers from this conference, along with a new overview
chapter and several appendixes, were published in a book titled Helping Children
Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity and edited by
EFAP director John Yinger (MIT Press, 2004).