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Direct linkValerie Lundy-Wagner; Jeremy Wright-Kim; Allison Beer – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Persistent budget constraints make "equitably" allocating existing resources more important than ever. Conversations regarding equitable funding typically overlook categorical programs, targeted initiatives typically focused on supporting historically underserved student groups, such as veterans, former foster youth, single parents, and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Educational Equity (Finance), Resource Allocation, Community Colleges
Download full textChris Duncombe; Lauren Peisach – Education Commission of the States, 2025
The distribution of state funding to school districts has a tremendous impact on student learning opportunities. State leaders juggle different priorities, tradeoffs and incentives when designing funding formulas with the goal of ensuring every student has the learning opportunities to succeed. This toolkit offers a strategic guide for reforming…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support, State Aid
Matt Richmond – New America, 2024
It is no secret that America's higher education system has a deep history of discrimination and exclusion. Funding for public institutions is still intensely inequitable and--in many cases--the situation is only getting worse. Most states have one or two public institutions with a large financial advantage over their peers. This is the norm, a…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Higher Education, State Aid
Bruce D. Baker – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating and reforming education finance systems to ensure equity, adequacy, and equal opportunity in publicly funded education. We summarize decades conceptual work, explaining our evolving understanding of the role and purpose of school finance systems, leading to our current framing that the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Finance Reform, Formative Evaluation, Educational Equity (Finance)
Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
The U.S. Government Accountability office (GAO) recently released a report presenting new data on eligibility and uptake for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) among college students with low incomes. The report paints a stark picture that, despite high levels of food insecurity among college students, few are receiving SNAP…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Students, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Institute for College Access & Success, 2025
The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is New York's primary aid program, accounting for 80 percent of state financial aid awards to students attending public, private non-profit, and for-profit higher education institutions in the state. TAP is available to students attending two-year or four-year degree granting programs as well as students…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Financial Support, Student Loan Programs
