Along the way they'll also budget tens of billions of dollars of state spending on education, health care and roads and bridges, and decide the fate of hundreds of other bills, including proposals to ban the declawing of cats, end the practice of prosecuting and imprisoning 16 - and 17 - year - old offenders as adults and authorize people with terminal illnesses to request life - ending drugs from a physician. (timesunion.com)
We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement. (educationnext.org)
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looks at state spending on education since the great recession. (utahpubliceducation.org)