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Table 6
Regression Models of State Grade 4 Public School
NAEP Reading
Scores On Demographic, Fiscal and Union
Variables
(T values in parentheses) |
| |
|
Mean |
(1) |
|
(2) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Grade 4 NAEP Reading |
214.5 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Percent Urban |
68.6% |
0.019 |
|
-0.040 |
| |
|
|
(0.26) |
|
(0.56) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Private H.S. Grads |
10.2% |
-0.435 |
* |
-0.466 |
| |
|
|
(2.83) |
|
(3.23) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Spending Per Pupil |
$5,253 |
0.000 |
|
-0.001 |
| |
|
|
(0.02) |
|
(0.64) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Income Per Capita |
$20,921 |
0.001 |
* |
0.001 |
| |
|
|
(2.45) |
|
(1.85) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Percent Minority |
21.7% |
-0.373 |
* |
-0.136 |
| |
|
|
(4.25) |
|
(1.27) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Percent IEP or LEP |
14.2% |
0.271 |
|
0.026 |
| |
|
|
(1.37) |
|
(0.14) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
High Absence Rate |
15.1% |
-0.356 |
* |
-0.271 |
| |
|
|
(2.87) |
|
(2.40) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Class Size Under 25 |
66.6% |
0.147 |
* |
0.202 |
| |
|
|
(3.12) |
|
(4.34) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Collective Bargaining |
56.7% |
|
|
0.093 |
| |
|
|
|
|
(3.20) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Meet-and-Confer Only |
8.9% |
|
|
0.125 |
| |
|
|
|
|
(1.75) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Constant |
|
194.3 |
|
195.4 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
N |
|
38 |
|
38 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Adjusted R-Squared |
|
0.76 |
|
0.82 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
*Significant at 5% level |
|
|
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Posted December 1, 1997
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