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Kristin Blagg; Moriah Macklin – Urban Institute, 2025
In this essay, the authors examine a congressional proposal -- the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) -- to allow taxpayers to redirect their federal tax dollars to organizations that would provide funding for students to enroll in private school or to help pay for outside educational supports. Based on the implementation of similar…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, School Choice, Private Schools
Syverson, Eric – Education Commission of the States, 2021
This Policy Snapshot provides examples of legislation in 13 states that have proposed or enacted legislation addressing the following principles of K-12 funding models: attendance and enrollment, revenue, and equity-based initiatives. All 50 states allocate K-12 funding in different ways. Refer to this two-page reference guide, which defines and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Legislation
Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2021
Hold-harmless provisions in state aid formulas are meant to restrict declines in revenues for school districts. They may take several forms, including limits on the changes in state aid from year to year, supplemental funding for districts with declining enrollment, alternatives for calculating the state aid amount, or use of past enrollments in…
Descriptors: State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts, Declining Enrollment
Shores, Kenneth A.; Candelaria, Christopher A.; Kabourek, Sarah E. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019
Sixty-seven school finance reforms (SFRs) in 26 states have taken place since 1990; however, there is little empirical evidence on the heterogeneity of SFR effects. We provide a comprehensive description of how individual reforms affected resource allocation to low- and high-income districts within states, including both financial and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, School Districts, Finance Reform
Falkenstern, Colleen – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2018
This issue of "WICHE Insights" reviews the results of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) annual survey of tuition and fees at public postsecondary institutions in the WICHE region in the context of state higher education finance policy. In light of steady increases in tuition and fees rates, modest growth in…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Higher Education, Public Colleges
Falkenstern, Colleen – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2017
This issue of "Policy Insights" reviews the results of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's annual survey of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in the WICHE region and discusses related policy implications. (Data from the survey were published in November 2016.) Overall, tuition and fees in the WICHE…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Higher Education, Public Colleges
Sugarman, Julie – Migration Policy Institute, 2016
With nearly 10 percent of U.S. elementary and secondary students less than fully fluent in English, many school districts are struggling to develop the capacity to meet the needs of these nearly 5 million children from immigrant and refugee backgrounds. More than two-thirds of these students live in the traditional immigrant-destination states of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Equal Education, English Language Learners
Bransberger, Peace – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2016
This issue of "Policy Insights" reviews the results of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) annual survey of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities in the WICHE region and discusses related policy implications. Overall, tuition and fees in the WICHE region increased relatively little in 2015-16…
Descriptors: Tuition, Fees, Higher Education, Public Colleges
Alonso, Juan Diego; Rothstein, Richard – Economic Policy Institute, 2010
For two decades, researchers at the Economic Policy Institute have been tracking nine school districts, typical of districts nationwide, to understand how the spending levels and composition in elementary and secondary education have changed over time. The first report, "Where's the Money Gone?" (1995) tracked expenditures from 1967 to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
Casserly, Michael; Lachlan-Hache, Jonathon; Manish Naik – Council of the Great City Schools, 2011
The nation's major city public school districts have substantial construction, renovation, modernization, and deferred maintenance needs because of the age and size of their school buildings, shifting populations, and the need to devote substantial resources to instructional personnel to meet their core academic mission. For instance, the average…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, School Maintenance, Educational Facilities
Education Resource Strategies, 2010
On March 25-26, 2010, a cadre of urban education leaders gathered in Baltimore, Maryland for the "Fair Student Funding Summit," a conference that brought together districts that use weighted student funding (WSF) as an approach for allocating dollars to schools. Convened by Education Resource Strategies (ERS) and hosted by Baltimore City…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Finance, Financial Support
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Maas, Bruce; Miller, Fredrick; Orr, Pattie; Ouska, Julie; Waggener, Shelton M.; Goldstein, Philip J., Comp. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2009
To explore current and future implications of the economic downturn, "EDUCAUSE Review" assembled a panel of senior IT leaders: (1) Bruce Maas, CIO, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; (2) Fredrick Miller, CIO, Furman University; (3) Pattie Orr, Vice President for IT and Dean of University Libraries, Baylor University; (4) Julie Ouska, CIO…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Community Colleges, Leadership
Griffith, Michael; Hancock, John – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2006
The information in this document describes how selected states fund English Language Learner/English as a Second Language (ELL/ESL) programs. The states chosen for this survey include: California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Texas. All information contained in this StateNote is derived from state sources. [This…
Descriptors: State Aid, Resource Allocation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
Baltzell, D. Catherine, Ed.; Ames, Richard, Ed. – 1979
This volume attempts to identify and describe factors that supported the unexpected expansion of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I services in thirteen participating local education agencies (LEAs). It also describes changes in program delivery patterns that may not have supported expansion of services but may have accompanied…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
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