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Prior research on environmental and sustainability education policies has largely focused on the international to national policy uptake. This article explores such policies at the subnational level in a fragmented education system. Over the past two decades, a growing number of school districts in the United States have enacted sustainability-oriented policies through the implementation of simultaneous efforts to green their facilities and provide related educational programming. This article explores the breadth of this approach in the 200 largest school districts in the country. In examining policy predictors at the district, municipal, and state levels, the study combines National Center for Education Statistics data and information from a systematic web scan. Using logistic regression, the analysis is grounded in an expanded Advocacy Coalition Framework and reveals four main findings. First, school districts under mayoral control are more likely to have a policy than districts governed by a school board. Second, the study underscores the interconnectedness of these policies with the sustainability efforts of the municipalities they are located in. Third, school districts located in large cities are more likely to have a policy. Fourth, a strong environmental movement in the state is associated with the presence of a policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article investigates the common determinants of the capital structure of non-profit organizations (NPO). It discusses the theory of NPO capital structure in terms of equity, debt, debt financing and potential agency problems. The authors examined the factors that influence the borrowing decision of Californian NPOs. They found that labor-intensive NPOs are more inclined to debt financing and equity constrained NPOs borrow less often. The authors focussed on the determinants of financial leverage, the share of debt relative to total assets. The authors conclude that the capital structure theory explains the NPO's capital structure choices and highlights the prominence given to equity constraint considerations and agency related explanations.