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Chris 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
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
Dammu, Indira; O'Keefe, Bonnie – Bellwether, 2023
State education finance sets the stage for what is possible in schools. Too many state education finance systems today are inequitable, outdated, and inadequate, and there are often significant political barriers to change. Advocates for educational equity can and should play an essential role in shaping the allocation and structure of state…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, State Aid, Educational Finance
Mishory, Jen; Stettner, Andrew – Century Foundation, 2020
Michigan's public higher education institutions have seen decades of decline in per-student funding, leaving students to face costs that are simply out of reach. The state, for the most part, relies on institutions to provide aid to bring down costs for students at four-year institutions, rather than providing students with aid directly via state…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Public Colleges, Student Costs
Pingel, Sarah; Holly, Neal – Education Commission of the States, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created and will continue to create uncertainty in all facets of everyday life, exacerbating current challenges -- and generating new ones -- for every sector of the economy, including postsecondary education. As the pandemic continues, postsecondary education faces increasing pressures as concerns about health and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
Rucker C. Johnson – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
In 2013, California implemented an ambitious school funding reform, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which allocates state funding by the proportion of unduplicated "high-need" students in the district: those from low-income families, English learners, and those in foster care. Using student-level longitudinal data for all…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Low Income Students
Imazeki, Jennifer; Bruno, Paul; Levin, Jesse; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Atchison, Drew – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
California policymakers have established the expectation that all public school students should have access to a broad course of study, in classes where instruction is consistent with the state's content standards. Further, the state holds schools and school districts accountable for their ability to ensure that all students achieve at a specified…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas, State Policy, State Aid
Sedney, Christina – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2016
In 2016, there was an increasingly dramatic divergence between state economies in the West. Most states in the region benefited from an ongoing economic recovery, but states reliant on the energy sector for tax revenues were hit hard by the global decline in oil prices. This resulted in varying budget situations in legislatures across the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Economic Impact, Economic Factors
Simon, Carlee Escue – Leadership and Research in Education, 2015
Ohio has a long history of school funding inequity. This manuscript provides a brief history of Ohio education funding, the equity and adequacy concerns. Education reform efforts have been expanding while the appropriate management of the funding mechanism has been underfunded or entirely ignored. The researcher examines the negative impact of…
Descriptors: Public Education, Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Change
Ujifusa, Andrew – Education Week, 2013
State lawmakers will attempt to tackle a range of issues in legislative sessions getting under way this month, from making common academic standards a reality and funding schools based on performance, to allowing armed teachers and staff members on school grounds. Their task may be complicated by the still small and spotty economic recovery in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Aid, State Action, State Legislation
Ujifusa, Andrew – Education Week, 2013
As states consider increases to K-12 spending amid better economic conditions, governors on opposite sides of the partisan divide are proposing significantly different plans and arguments for the best ways to use new education aid. Two prime examples: Minnesota and Ohio, a pair of Midwestern states with chief executives intent on pumping more…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, State Aid, Funding Formulas
Wong, Kenneth K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Reforming the way a state distributes its funding to local school districts is a challenging task. Too often, state leaders embrace major school funding reform only when they are directed by court decisions. In this seemingly contentious policy domain, the Rhode Island General Assembly defied the odds--working in a recessionary climate and in the…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Accountability, Equal Education, School Districts
Fuller, Bruce; Tobben, Laura – Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2014
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was enacted by the California legislature in June 2013 and fundamentally changes the distribution of education dollars to districts. The legislation simplifies the formula for sending money to districts and now takes into account the higher costs of educating certain groups of students, specifically those…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Finance, School Districts
Knudson, Joel – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2014
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) represents a fundamental transformation of the way California allocates state funds to school districts and the ways the state expects districts to make decisions about (and report on) the use of these funds. This is the first in a series of short briefs that aims to capture some key themes emerging from…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, School Districts