@inbook{31b39ffed97d4dcc90a22d94d2c961da,
title = "Performance benchmarking of school districts in New York state",
abstract = "We used data envelopment analysis to measure the relative performance of New York State school districts in the 2011-2012 academic year and provided detailed alternative improvement pathways for each district. We found that 201 of the 624 (32.2 \%) school districts with one or more high schools and 28 of the 31 (90.3 \%) school districts with no high school were on the performance frontier. Using a mixed orientation, we found evidence that FTE teachers could be reduced by 8.4 \%, FTE teacher support personnel could be reduced by 17.2 \%, and FTE building administration and professional staff personnel could be reduced by 9.4 \%. In addition, we found that the percentage of students who score 3 or 4 on the English exam could increase by 4.9 \% points, 5.0 \% points on the mathematics exam, and 5.8 \% points on the science exam and the average graduation rate could increase by 5.4 \% points.",
keywords = "Benchmarking, Data envelopment analysis (DEA), Education administration, Education finance, Education policy, School district performance",
author = "Sexton, \{Thomas R.\} and Christie Comunale and Higuera, \{Michael Shane\} and Kelly Stickle",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4899-7684-0\_13",
language = "English",
series = "International Series in Operations Research and Management Science",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "439--462",
booktitle = "International Series in Operations Research and Management Science",
}