@inbook{dbc3b99d43c246a68f9d77b113337549,
title = "Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System?",
abstract = "This paper utilizes highly detailed student-level data to examine whether the initiation of a high-stakes test for accountability purposes affected Florida public schools' decisions regarding whether to assign students to special education. Using student-level fixed effects models, we find that schools systematically placed students from low socio-economic status backgrounds and historically low-performing students into special education categories that were at the time exempt from the accountability system. High-poverty schools are significantly more likely to reclassify low-achieving students than are more affluent schools. These results provide important implications for the design of school accountability systems.",
author = "Figlio, {David N.} and Getzler, {Lawrence S.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Sheila Murray, Richard Rothstein, and Jim Wyckoff as well as seminar participants at Iowa State University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Stanford University, University of California-Davis, and University of Florida, and participants at the APPAM and AEFA meetings for helpful comments and suggestions, to the National Science Foundation for research funding, and to six undisclosed school districts for generously providing us with the confidential data employed in this study. Any remaining errors are our own. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of their employers.",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1016/S0278-0984(06)14002-X",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "076231351X",
series = "Advances in Applied Microeconomics",
pages = "35--49",
editor = "Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen",
booktitle = "Improving School Accountability Chec-Ups or Choice",
}