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Tennessee’s High School Dropouts - Examining the Fiscal Consequences

High school dropouts adversely impact the state of Tennessee each year—financially and socially. Dropouts’ lower incomes, high unemployment rates, increased need for medical care, and higher propensity for incarceration create a virtual vortex that consumes Tennesseans’ tax dollars at a vicious rate. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on these high school dropouts every year.
This study examines those costs across three major state funding mechanisms: state tax collections, Medicaid funds, and the costs of incarceration. All three aspects compose substantial parts of Tennessee’s operating budget. In 2009, for example, TennCare—the... Read More 		Featured Research View PDF


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Tennessee’s High School Dropouts - Examining the Fiscal Consequences

Christian D´Andrea, M.P.P. 		8/31/2010

Reforms With Results: What Oklahoma can learn from Florida’s K-12 education revolution

Matthew Ladner 		7/21/2010

Tax-Credit Scholarships in Nebraska - Forecasting the Fiscal Impact

Brian J. Gottlob 		6/30/2010

Tax-credit Scholarships in Maryland: Forecasting the Fiscal Impact

Brian J. Gottlob 		5/17/2010

Ohio teacher contracts: The black hole of school spending

Education Action Group 		4/27/2010

Underfunded Teacher Pension Plans: It’s Worse Than You Think

Stuart Buck, Josh Barro 		4/13/2010

Oregon’s High School Dropouts: Examining the economic and social costs

Emily Anne House 		3/10/2010

The Economic and Fiscal Costs of Failing to Reform K-12 Education in Georgia

Brian J. Gottlob 		12/15/2009

Virginia’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		11/16/2009

Nebraska’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		9/17/2009

Florida’s Lessons for Indiana K-12 Reform

Matthew Ladner 		9/2/2009

An Empirical Evaluation of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program

Greg Forster, Ph.D., Christian D´Andrea, M.P.P. 		8/6/2009

Kentucky’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		8/3/2009

Fork In The Road - Where does the District go in K-12 Education?

Dan Lips, Paul DiPerna 		7/28/2009

The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Oklahoma

Brian J. Gottlob 		6/30/2009

Ohio’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		5/21/2009

Free to Teach: What America´s Teachers Say about Teaching in Public and Private Schools

Greg Forster, Ph.D., Christian D´Andrea, M.P.P. 		5/20/2009

The Fiscal Impact of a Corporate & Individual Tax Credit Scholarship Program on the State of Indiana

David Stuit 		4/22/2009

Rhode Island’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		4/16/2009

The High Cost of Wisconsin’s Dropout Rate

Emily Anne House 		4/2/2009

Erasing the Myths of School Choice

Greg Forster, Ph.D. 		2/28/2009

Vermont’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice

Paul DiPerna 		2/12/2009

A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evdence on How Vouchers affect Public Schools

Greg Forster, Ph.D. 		2/10/2009

Expanding Choice: Tax Credits and Educational Access in Indiana

Dick M. Carpenter II, John K. Ross 		2/10/2009

The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Montana

Brian J. Gottlob 		2/5/2009
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