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Halley Potter; Casey Stockstill – Century Foundation, 2024
The landscape of early childhood programs has evolved as a largely fractured landscape: most public early education programs such as Head Start and state pre-K have been limited to low-income children or children with identified risk factors, and most private programs charge tuition that is too low to support a well-compensated workforce but still…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Student Diversity, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
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Duer, Jennifer K.; Jenkins, Jade – Educational Policy, 2023
As a result of patchwork policies, early childhood education (ECE) providers combine funding from multiple sources, known as blended funding. However, little is known about the consequences of blended funding for policy goals. We use national ECE provider data to identify the prevalence of blended funding models, and detailed state quality rating…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, State Federal Aid
Nicole MartinRogers; Jennifer Valorose; Jackie Aman – Wilder Research, 2024
In order to explore how early childhood Ojibwe language and culture programs could be scaled up with financial and governance support from state government agencies, Wilder Research explored the process of reclaiming Indigenous culture and language, how it is embedded into early childhood programs in Minnesota, how the state can deepen their…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Early Childhood Education
Williams-Wyche, Shaun – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2019
Student loans can help fill cost gaps created by insufficient grants, scholarships, and family income in funding a postsecondary education. Whereas receipt of grant aid does not require repayment, student loans must be repaid with interest. Loans provide students with additional choices, such as living independently (instead of living with parents…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Programs, Credit (Finance), State Programs
Gonzalez, Veronica; Ahlman, Lindsay; Fung, Ana – Project on Student Debt, 2019
"Student Debt and the Class of 2018" is the fourteenth annual report produced by The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) on the student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges, documenting the changes in student loan debt and variation among states as well as colleges. This report includes federal policy…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid
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Ferrare, Joseph J.; Setari, R. Renee – Educational Researcher, 2018
A growing body of research has been documenting the pivotal role that philanthropic funding plays in advancing state and local charter school reform. However, there is little understanding of the geographic flow of these funding patterns and the market, policy, and organizational conditions that have concentrated funding in some clusters of states…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Schak, J. Oliver; Wong, Nancy; Fung, Ana; Ahlman, Lindsay – Project on Student Debt, 2020
"Student Debt and the Class of 2019" is The Institute for College Access & Success' (TICAS') fifteenth annual report on the student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges, documenting changes and variation in student debt across states and colleges. This report includes federal policy recommendations to reduce debt…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid
Cheng, Diane; Gonzalez, Veronica – Project on Student Debt, 2018
"Student Debt and the Class of 2017" is the thirteenth annual report produced by The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) on the student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges, documenting the changes in student loan debt and variation among states as well as colleges. [For "Student Debt and the Class of…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, State Policy
Marcus, Jon – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016
Income-share agreements (ISAs) are an emerging idea for helping students pay for college. Under an ISA, investors provide upfront sums of money toward students' college tuition and other associated costs in exchange for a fixed percentage of the recipients' earnings after graduation. This paper--the first in a series examining private financing in…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Paying for College, Student Financial Aid, Income
Cheng, Diane; Cochrane, Debbie; Gonzalez, Veronica – Project on Student Debt, 2017
Student Debt and the Class of 2016 is the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS') twelfth annual report on the student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges, documenting the rise in student loan debt and variation among states as well as colleges. State averages for debt at graduation ranged from a low of $20,000 (Utah)…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Annual Reports
Connors-Tadros, Lori; Silloway, Torey; Mayman, Jennifer; Dahlin, Melissa – Finance Project, 2012
A strong early childhood system that is well funded, fully coordinated, and highly accountable is essential to a state's long-term economic health. Significant research during the past decade has identified short- and long-term benefits to children, families, and communities when young children arrive at school healthy and ready to learn.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Health Services, Family Programs
Baum, Sandy; Ma, Jennifer; Pender, Matea; Welch, Meredith – College Board, 2017
This report provides a detailed look at the sources and distribution of grants, loans, and other student aid for the most recent academic year and how this funding has changed over time. The federal government provided two-thirds of all student aid in 2016-17, but only one-third of the grant aid. In the context of uncertainty about the timing of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
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Kornhaber, Mindy L.; Barkauskas, Nikolaus J.; Griffith, Kelly M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The Common Core State Standards Initiative seeks to prepare all students to graduate high school without remedial needs, to improve transparency across states' accountability systems, and to foster efficiencies in the development and distribution of educational resources. The reform was adopted in more than 40 states and has been described as…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Federal Aid, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support
Baum, Sandy; Ma, Jennifer; Pender, Matea; Welch, Meredith – College Board, 2016
Data on student aid for 2015-16 confirm that the dramatic increases in aid awarded in 2009-10 and 2010-11 were products of extreme economic circumstances, not harbingers of long-run changes in financing for postsecondary education. Both total federal education loans and federal loans per full-time equivalent (FTE) student declined for the fifth…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
Tomassini, Jason – Education Week, 2012
Two years after the U.S. Department of Education awarded $650 million in Investing in Innovation grants, some of the winners are still facing financial uncertainty. Other grantees have also encountered problems with matching funds coming through, and some nonprofit grantees have been forced to contribute their own money to match the initial…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Competition, Awards, Grants
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