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Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic posed many challenges to student learning, classroom instruction, and the management of school systems. Media, think tanks, and education groups have warned of a post-COVID fiscal cliff for K-12 schools after the $190 billion from the federal government in the form of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Boards of Education, Educational Finance, COVID-19
Swanson, Elise; Bettencourt, Genia; Corwin, Zoë; Kezar, Adrianna; Sablan, Jenna; Ward, James – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2021
This brief is intended as an evidence-based guide for policy analysts and decision makers to inform critical areas in the Higher Education Authorization Act related to racial justice. Our recommendations prioritize combating systemic racism in higher education with a particular focus on disrupting anti-Blackness, though several sections focus on…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Social Justice
Staklis, Sandra; Klein, Steve – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2014
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV") sets a minimum allocation requirement that secondary and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) subgrantees must achieve to receive federal financing. An eligible recipient with an allocation below the funding threshold may obtain a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Resource Allocation, Federal Aid, Federal Regulation
Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2011
For 46 years, the United States Department of Education (USDOE) has used the Title I program as a means of helping school districts increase educational opportunities for low-income students. In the past 10 years alone, the federal government has expended over $140 billion on Title I, yet many observers feel it has fallen well short of its mark of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Finance Reform, Funding Formulas
Herman, Juliana – Center for American Progress, 2013
This report takes a look at Colorado's redesigned school-funding system whose fate was decided by Coloradan voters in Fall 2013. Voters were asked to approve a $1.1 billion tax increase to finance Colorado's schools, an approval required for the funding reforms to kick in. The proposed system represented a significant step forward in the push for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Change
District of Columbia Public Schools, 2010
Two years ago, the problems of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) were so significant that many believed the system was beyond repair. According to the 2007 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), only eight percent of eighth graders were on grade level in math, and 12 percent were in reading. With achievement gaps between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Resource Allocation, Federal Aid
New America Foundation, 2011
President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 14th, 2011. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2012 funding levels for individual programs subject to appropriations. Congress will use…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Public Agencies, Federal Aid, Budgets
Carey, Kevin; Roza, Marguerite – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2008
This report examines funding disparities between two seemingly similar schools in Virginia and North Carolina. It finds that the federal, state, and local policies designed to distribute education funds systematically provide more money to higher-income students and wealthier schools. (Contains 5 figures.) [This report was also produced by the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Federal Aid
Brecher, Charles; Silver, Diana; Searcy, Cynthia; Weitzman, Beth – American Journal of Evaluation, 2005
This article describes the nature and utility of fiscal analysis in evaluating complex community interventions. Using New York University's evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative as an example, the authors describe issues arising in defining and operationalizing constructs for fiscal analysis. The approachs…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Change Strategies
Paller, Alan – 1977
This document contains a synthesized review of current State subcounty allocation procedures and assesses the impact and feasibility of four alternative allocation strategies. The review indicates that in the current subcounty allocation process, the United States Office of Education (USOE) uses a single formula to calculate county entitlements…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Kearney, C. Philip, Ed.; VanderPutten, Elizabeth A., Ed. – 1979
This book, a collection of six papers by different authors, examines grants consolidation or the combining of several categorical programs into a single broader category serving the same target populations. According to the book, grants consolidation is seen as a possible compromise between the extremes of narrow categorical aid and unrestricted…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Finance Reform

Browning, Edgar K. – Public Interest, 1976
Through an examination of the economic and ethical implications of additional redistribution, the author shows that the massive redistribution currently taking place each year makes it very costly to attempt to move still further toward equality. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Finance Reform, Financial Policy
Brown, Lawrence L., III; And Others – 1978
This study examines the entitlement and payment arrangements set out in the maintenance and operations portion of the impact aid laws. Section 1 provides a brief background description of the program, including the changes made in the 1974 Amendments, a recent budget history, and a description of the program's beneficiaries. Section 2 contains an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Cordes, Colleen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
Congressional investigations into university overhead charges, especially those at Stanford University (California), for federally sponsored research are leading universities to reexamine and change some policies, including charging some housing costs for university officers to government contracts. (DB)
Descriptors: Administrators, Federal Aid, Finance Reform, Government School Relationship

Verstegen, Deborah A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1985
Chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) reduced and redistributed federal aid to education, moving funds from targeted areas of need to all areas regardless of need. States were unable to make up for significant losses in aid sustained by local districts. (TE)
Descriptors: Block Grants, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid