Knowing the odds: Parameters that predict passing or failing school district bonds

Educational Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 398-420

  Bowers, Alex J ^a   Metzger, Scott Alan ^b   Militello, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond election; Bond issues; Capital improvement; Logistic regression; School bond

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649257364     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904808330169     Document Type: Article

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