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George Padilla; Michelle H. Abrego – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2024
The question whether money matters in education strikes at the foundation of America's democracy - an educated electorate. Despite decades of evidence that money does matter, the question still remains unanswered among many and even answered to the contrary of the evidence. It is important to fully understand that money does matter in American…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Public Education, Political Influences, Social Influences
Education Law Center, 2023
New research finds that increased spending on public education improves student achievement, thereby debunking the notion that "money doesn't matter" and making the case for greater investment in preschool-12 public education. How money is spent matters, but funding must also be adequate, equitable, and stable from year to year so that…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Academic Achievement
David Frazier – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how academic performance of the online learning mode compares with the traditional face-to-face mode in rural community colleges. As online learning has become a popular instructional offering among many rural community college students seeking to advance their opportunities, so has the level of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Rural Schools, Electronic Learning
Stauffer, Steven – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this global leadership study was to investigate the impact community college business curriculum internationalization has on the key components of the Ohio State Share of Instruction (SSI) funding formula. This analysis should assist institutional decision-makers in determining whether or not to incorporate such initiatives at their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Global Approach, Curriculum Development
McKillip, Mary; Farrie, Danielle – Education Law Center, 2019
Georgia's school funding formula currently provides additional funds for academically struggling students through Early Intervention (EIP) and Remedial Education Programs (REP). These programs drastically underserve the number of students who are not proficient on state assessments, and participation is inconsistent across districts. Georgia could…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, Low Income Students, Early Intervention
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Tuchman, Sivan; Gross, Betheny; Chu, Lisa – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Over the last 20 years an increasing number of districts have implemented weighted student funding (WSF) policies that distribute resources to schools in ways that more accurately reflect the level students may require and provide principals with expanded flexibility in the use of funds. This study uses an event study model to examine whether…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School Districts, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
As students return to full in-person learning in 2021-22, California public schools face considerable challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Record-high funding distributed through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) will provide some of the resources that will be key to an equitable recovery. This brief highlights selected findings…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Kindergarten, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kasa, Rita; Ait Si Mhamed, Ali; Rydchenko, Viktoriya – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2020
Policy implementation research suggests that the likelihood of policy success, i.e. matching policy outcomes with expectations, can be best assessed by engaging the bottom-up perspectives of those who will implement the policy. This paper works from this premise and examines the views of university leaders in Kazakhstan on the potential impact of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Willis, Jason; Tanner, Sean – WestEd, 2020
In the wake of public-health stay-at-home orders prompted by the coronavirus, the United States faces a nearly inevitable economic recession in the coming months. With a slowing economy will come a contraction in state revenues, including funding for public education. States are beginning to make budget-cutting calculations and are bracing for the…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Public Health, Budgeting, Educational Finance
Chang, Betty – Education Resource Strategies, 2018
Student-Based Budgeting (SBB)--also called weighted student funding, fair student funding, student-based allocations, or student-centered funding--is a school funding system where schools receive dollars based on the number of enrolled students and their individual needs (such as English language learners, or students from high-poverty…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Mathuews, Katy; Pulcini, Brad – College and University, 2017
For the purposes of this article, open access universities are defined as bachelor's degree-granting institutions that do not restrict admission on the basis of ACT/SAT scores, high school grade point average, and the like. Typically, the mission of an open access university is to provide all students with the opportunity to pursue a degree. The…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas
Malatras, Jim; Park, Young Joo; Klancnik, Urska – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2018
The link between education funding levels and student outcomes is a matter of continuing debate, including in New York State. State education aid in New York follows a progressive formula that targets more aid to lower-income, higher-need school districts, yet these districts continue to dominate lists of the state's lowest performing schools. The…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Expenditures, Academic Achievement, Public Schools
Koppich, Julia E.; Humphrey, Daniel C.; Marsh, Julie A.; Polikoff, Morgan; Willis, Jason – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, represents the first comprehensive change in California's education funding system in 40 years. The LCFF eliminates nearly all categorical funding streams, shifts control of most education dollars from the state to local school districts, and…
Descriptors: Local Government, Funding Formulas, State Policy, Educational Policy
Derby, Elena; Roza, Marguerite – Edunomics Lab, 2017
In 2013, California moved to drive more resources for students with higher needs, create more spending flexibility and let districts decide how to spend substantial new dollars by adopting a new watershed state finance policy, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). As California's Weighted Student Funding (WSF) law enters Year 5 of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Aid, Funding Formulas, Educational Change
Doutre, Sara Menlove; Willis, Jason; Barrett, Tyson; Ripma, Tye; Caparas, Ruthie; Krausen, Kelsey – WestEd, 2021
Each year, funds from federal, state, and local sources are directed to provide special education and related services to nearly 725,000 students with disabilities in California. To increase equitable outcomes for these students, who comprise nearly 12 percent of California's K-12 population, state-decision-makers agree that more research and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Special Education, Educational Finance, Financial Support
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