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Committee hears plan to measure effects of Act 1240 waivers on school performance and spending
Summary
Consultants described a focused analysis of Act 1240 waivers using 2015–2019 data to test whether waivers (licensure, attendance, library/media, credit hours, class size, salary/HR) changed demographics, expenditures or outcomes; flexible‑schedule waivers will be excluded from causal models.
Amanda Brown, presenting the study team’s next analytic step, told the Senate Education Committee the waiver impact analysis will concentrate on Act 1240 waivers granted since 2015 and will exclude long‑standing charter waivers and near‑universal flexible‑schedule waivers.
Brown said the team has built a panel dataset with waiver topic codes, demographic controls and expenditure/performance records for…
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