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Edunomics Lab, 2020
This brief summarizes findings from a three-year, U.S. Department of Education-funded research study analyzing the use of weighted student funding (WSF) at the district and state level. The study focuses on these key questions: (1) Why do districts adopt WSF? (2) Is there a typical WSF model that districts are using? (3) Do WSF districts spend…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, Financial Support, School Districts
Steele, Trenton Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The Second Session of the 99th Nebraska Legislature, convened in 2007, produced an educational idea that was unique in the United States: The Learning Community of the Omaha metropolitan area. Aimed at creating greater educational funding equity, integrating the young people of the Omaha area, and improving student learning achievement, the…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), School Districts, Taxes, State Legislation
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
Humphrey, Daniel; Koppich, Julia; Lavadenz, Magaly; Marsh, Julie; O'Day, Jennifer; Plank, David; Stokes, Laura; Hall, Michelle – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was signed into law in 2013, and represents the most significant change in California education finance and governance in 40 years. It moves additional funds to districts with students in poverty, English language learners, and foster youth. The LCFF sends supplemental funds to districts based on…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Educational Improvement, School Districts, Funding Formulas
Koppich, Julia E. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
In fall 2018, the Local Control Funding Formula Research Collaborative (LCFFRC) conducted surveys of stratified random samples of California superintendents and principals. Superintendent results were published in June 2018 in "Superintendents Speak: Implementing the Local Control Funding Formula." This report, "Principals'…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Funding Formulas, Resource Allocation
Knudson, Joel; Ramanathan, Arun; Carter, Allison; O'Day, Jennifer – California Collaborative on District Reform, 2017
The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) has introduced positive and much-needed change to California's approach to K-12 education funding by allocating resources according to student need and freeing districts to make decisions that address local priorities. For all of LCFF's advantages, however, the Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) in…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School District Autonomy, School Districts, Educational Change
Warren, Paul – Public Policy Institute of California, 2014
California is in the midst of a major K-12 reform effort. In 2010, the state adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which outline what students should know in mathematics and English. In 2013, it adopted tests of the new standards developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Collaborative (SBAC). These tests will be administered beginning…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Common Core State Standards, Academic Standards
Blanton, Rebecca E. – California Research Bureau, 2012
This study was mandated by SB537 (Simitian, Chapter 650, Stats. of 2007, codified at Ed. Code Section 47613), which requires the California Research Bureau (CRB) to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the key elements and actual costs of charter school oversight. Charter schools are public schools that are operated by entities other…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness, School Districts
Dady, Kenneth J., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The measure of district wealth used by a state is a critical factor in reducing the potential extremes in available resources that may occur across districts. To be effective, the state definition of wealth should correlate closely with the local tax structure that is available to school districts to raise local revenues. Conversely, if wealth is…
Descriptors: State Government, Educational Finance, State Aid, Resource Allocation
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
West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2015
Title VII provides funding for the education of American Indian/Alaska Native students based on a formula grant available to school districts, charter schools, and local education agencies (LEAs). This report explores why some eligible schools and districts do not apply for federal Title VII, potentially resulting in American Indian/Alaska Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Alaska Natives, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
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
Berry, Christopher; Wysong, Charles – Education Next, 2010
While school-finance lawsuits have attracted significant attention in the legal community and generated numerous state-specific case studies, nationwide analyses of the effects of school-finance judgments (SFJs) have been relatively few. This small pool of studies has produced some common conclusions, namely, that such judgments reduce funding…
Descriptors: Finance Reform, Educational Finance, School Districts, Court Litigation
Naik, Manish; Yorkman, Michell; Casserly, Michael – Council of the Great City Schools, 2010
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act or ARRA) into law on February 17, 2009. This federal stimulus package provided an unprecedented infusion of new education aid for the nation's schools--more than $100 billion. To determine how the unprecedented federal infusion of education funding was…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Technology, Federal Programs
Chambers, Jay G.; Brown, James R.; Tolleson, Ray; Manship, Karen; Knudson, Joel – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2010
This report summarizes the perspectives and attitudes of a selected set of district and school site administrators whom the authors interviewed in Twin Rivers Unified School District (TRUSD) during the fall of 2009. The authors carried out interviews and focus groups with these individuals to gain an understanding of how the current budgeting…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Focus Groups, Innovation, Research Reports
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