Not exact matches
Picus Odden and Associates completed an evidence -
based Michigan 2018
Adequacy Study under contract with Augenblick Palaich and Associates in early 2018.
The current funding formula was
based on an
adequacy study the pair conducted for the state in 2005 and updated five years later during the state's 2010 recalibration effort.
Using the results of the
study to create an
adequacy -
based funding system with appropriate
base cost, weights and adjustments for district characteristics.
The emergence of
adequacy studies led to the filing of a new round of court challenges
based on the level of funding
adequacy produced by a state funding plan.
Based on the findings of the
study, in 2008 the General Assembly enacted Act 61, establishing a new funding formula and a plan to meet
adequacy funding targets in underfunded school districts by 2014.
, a robust education
adequacy cost
study that ultimately formed the
basis for the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.
Financing High Quality Preschool Programs: How States and Communities are Addressing
Adequacy, Equity and Efficiency of Funding presents preliminary findings from a
study of how local communities (districts and community
based programs) use mixed funding sources, including state, federal (including PDG), and local funds, to offer high quality preschool programs, in mixed delivery settings, to children from varied economic backgrounds.
The Collaborative, a broad -
based and diverse group of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, business leaders and education experts from Metro Detroit to the U.P., is supporting a new school funding
adequacy study.
Many states now
base their school funding systems on education
adequacy studies that assess the cost of education, including those factors that affect the cost, such as: state mandates and standards, services for students with additional needs, and geographic differences in cost.
In order to estimate how much
adequacy -
based school finance reforms have contributed to this reduction, we use an «event
study» design, which essentially looks at the result of three successive differences for each school finance reform.
In June of 2007, two of the authors, Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou, moved the project forward by way of a
study for the Heinrich Böll Foundation with the snappy title of A Brief,
Adequacy and Equity -
Based Evaluation of Some Prominent Climate Policy Frameworks and Proposals, which briefly compares six approaches to a post-Kyoto climate regime, all of which claim to be fair.
Perceived stress is defined especially after having
studied the interaction between the individual and the environment, psychological stress include the interpretation of the
adequacy of management methods and
based on the notion that stress results from the subjective assessment of the individual in his relation with the environment (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).
This work included leading alignment
studies, examining the technical
adequacy of multiple preK - 3 performance -
based assessments, and working with contractors to explore the empirical alignment and relative difficulty of four kindergarten entry assessments related to the standards.