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Humphrey, Daniel C.; O'Day, Jennifer – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
California's new Statewide System of Support is grounded in the fundamental principles of the Local Control Funding Formula, especially its emphasis on the central role of local educators in determining the best approaches to improvement. This report examines the early implementation of the System of Support, with a focus on the work of the county…
Descriptors: State Programs, Funding Formulas, Program Implementation, School Districts
Affeldt, John T. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
California is in the midst of the nation's most significant current overhaul of a state school funding and accountability system. This paper examines the state's recent reforms enacted through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) against the new accountability framework articulated by Linda Darling-Hammond, Gene Wilhoit, and Linda Pittenger in…
Descriptors: Accountability, School District Autonomy, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Diem, Sarah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
This article examines the first regional governance reform in public education, created in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area in 2007. The legislation creating this regional reform, which is called the Learning Community, established a regional governing body, the Learning Community Coordinating Council, consisting of an elected 21-member…
Descriptors: Governance, Regional Programs, Case Studies, Educational Administration
Yatsko, Sarah; Lake, Robin; Bowen, Melissa; Cooley Nelson, Elizabeth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion nationwide to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. The U.S. Department of Education intended for the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to spur dramatic change.This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those grants…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement, Incentive Grants
Lafer, Gordon – Economic Policy Institute, 2014
During the past year, Wisconsin state legislators debated a series of bills aimed at closing low-performing public schools and replacing them with privately run charter schools. These proposals were particularly targeted at Milwaukee, the state's largest and poorest school district. Ultimately, the only legislation enacted was a bill that modestly…
Descriptors: Privatization, Program Proposals, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality
Haxton, Clarisse L.; Chambers, Jay G.; Manship, Karen; Cruz, Lisa; O'Neil, Caitlin – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2012
As part of the evaluation of the Strategic School Funding for Results (SSFR) project (called Budgeting for Student Success, or BSA, in Los Angeles Unified School District), the American Institutes for Research (AIR) conducted surveys of principals, teachers, and members of School Site Councils (SSCs) to gather information on their attitudes and…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Councils, Educational Change, School Funds
McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, appropriated $100 billion for education and included $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
Harbouk, Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined the implementation and assessment of revenue-based budgeting at a medium-size, private, mission-based graduate school of education (SOE), under the pseudonym Peter Claver University (PCU). Additionally, two other similar schools were included in the study because they used revenue-based budgeting for a period of 10 years or…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Income, Program Effectiveness, Deans
Wall, Shelly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In the 2006-2007 school year, the State of Wyoming adopted an evidenced-based school funding model. The Wyoming funding model reviewed in this study is considered an evidence-based approach, utilizing expert judgment to determine educational funding. In an evidence-based approach, educational strategies are identified and a dollar figure is…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Educational Practices, Funding Formulas
Costrell, Robert M. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2009
In February 2008, the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) issued its first report on the fiscal impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) on taxpayers in Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin. There are two reasons to update the 2008 report. First, the figures will naturally change with the continuing growth of the voucher…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School Choice, Demonstration Programs, Educational Vouchers
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. – 1994
This publication provides the basic statistics needed to illustrate the impact of North Carolina's Basic Education Program (BEP), an educational reform effort begun in 1985. Over 85% of the positions in the BEP are directly related to teaching and student-related activities. The new BEP programs result in smaller class sizes in kindergartens and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Counties, Educational Change
Springer, Matthew G.; Podgursky, Michael J.; Lewis, Jessica L.; Ehlert, Mark W.; Gardner, Catherine G.; Ghoshdastidar, Bonnie; Lopez, Omar S.; Patterson, Christine H.; Taylor, Lori L. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2007
This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas. In the fall of 2006, the GEEG program made available non-competitive, three-year grants to 99 schools ranging from $60,000 to $220,000 per year. Grants…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Research Reports