Footnotes

1. We define the core as English, mathematics, science, social studies, and foreign language.  [Back]

2. For detailed descriptions of the sites see Monk, Roellke, and Brent (1996).  [Back]

3. Benefits include provisions for state retirement, teachers retirement, social security, workmen's compensation, life insurance, disability insurance, dental insurance, employee assistance, hospital insurance, and unemployment reserve.  [Back]

4. These data measure only vocational and special education courses that are offered directly by the individual school district. Courses offered through regional cooperatives, called BOCES in New York State, are not reflected in these data.  [Back]

5. See Monk, Roellke, and Brent (1996) for a more detailed treatment of these results.  [Back]

6. For more on these longitudinal analyses, see Roellke (1997).  [Back]

7. School A and School B are used to differentiate between individual schools within districts that contain two high schools.  [Back]

8. Similar patterns emerged in the other three sites.  [Back]

9. For more qualitative analyses of the process by which staffing allocations are made, see Roellke (1996).  [Back]

 

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