Sentences with phrase «school finance reform»

This document presents a brief explanation of the goal of school finance reforms, followed by summaries of the main bodies of evidence that illustrate how equitable and adequate school funding improves student outcomes.

This 2015 study examines the impact of court - ordered school finance reform on per pupil funding and graduation rates.

Do state school finance reforms that provide more equitable and adequate funding matter?

This project will examine state - level school finance reforms, intended to increase funding for schools serving poor children, over the past several decades.

While school finance reforms did successfully reduce achievement gaps between high - and low - income districts, they did not have measurable impacts on gaps between high - and low - income students.

They also took into account school finance reforms and changes in the generosity of state earned - income tax credits.

The study, based on nationwide data, found that school finance reforms lead to substantial increases in revenues in low - income school districts, and to increases in student achievement.

The recently completed state budget was made tough because of a lack of revenues; positive school finance reform requires adequate, sustainable and equitable revenue sources.

The school funding workshop left little hope that the governor plans any real school finance reform.

Successful school finance reform always begins with an assessment of how much education costs, and always entails an increase in funding for public schools.

There are still 22 states that have not implemented school finance reforms since 1990.

This is the most important question about school finance reform, but has been the hardest to answer due in large part to a shortage of nationally comparable student achievement data.

Are school finance reforms merely a waste of effort?

The 1970s might be characterized as the decade of school finance reform.

In the 1970s and the 1980s, state school finance reforms were focused on equity, or on reducing funding gaps between districts.

This article is based on «The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms,» The Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming).

A comprehensive Education Savings Account program would not only help address these issues, but can also serve as a template for school finance reform in Texas.

The last time Texas had a commission on school finance reform in the 1980's, it studied how much it cost to fund a high quality education.

It should not come as surprise that even after the extraordinarily ambitious school finance reform legislation is fully implemented, in some — and perhaps even in many — districts the quality of a student's education will still be dependent on where a child is born, and on the wealth of his or her parents.

For the past 17 years Dianne has been the leading champion in the battle to force long - needed school finance reform here in Connecticut.

During that time, she was instrumental in passage of the Michigan School Improvement Act and several school finance reform ballot proposals.

Less than a week after the state Legislature approved a sweeping school finance reform plan that will funnel additional funds to low - income students and English learners, the state's finance chief says school districts will have to spend the extra funds in a way «that shows improved outcomes» among their students.

Superfine's research interests have focused on the intersection of education law and policy, school finance reform law and policy, standards - based reform and accountability policies, and the role of science in the educational policy process.

Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court reversal of the Rodríguez decision that found the Texas system of school finance unconstitutional, he resigned from the Edgewood ISD to establish IDRA to advocate school finance reform and improved educational opportunities for all children.

Most advocates for school finance reform thought that equalizing expenditures would pretty much solve the problem of equalizing school quality.

It is this unique North Carolina history and law that allow school finance reform at the state level to be a real game changer in each school child's opportunities, regardless of zip code.

The report discounts a significant body of peer - reviewed research that specifically shows positive effects of previous Michigan school finance reforms, including positive effects on state assessments and / educational attainment, concentrated on those students who attended, before those reforms, the lowest funded schools or lower performing schools.

We should not assume that school finance reforms directed at resolving resource inequalities between school districts will ensure those resources are equitably distributed among schools and their students.

The principle of local control has also played a pivotal role in the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence regarding school finance reform.

The legal theory underlying school finance reform is predicated to a significant degree on the principle that local school districts are essentially agencies of the states, charged with providing the education mandated by the state's constitution.

We study the impact of post-1990 school finance reforms, during the so - called «adequacy» era, on the distribution of school spending and student achievement between high - income and low - income school districts.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, a majority of states substantially changed the ways in which schools were funded, either directly through courtor legislatively mandated school finance reform,

Finally, the empirical analysis included in the report lacks depth and rigor when compared to four other studies — three of which were peer - reviewed — each of which find positive effects of prior school finance reforms in Michigan.

We stand by their endeavors to secure school finance reform and improve education outcomes and opportunities for our public school children, especially those who are at - risk, English language learners, and students with disabilities and other special needs.

Using over 20 years of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on revenue and expenditures for schools, the authors explore the relationship between substantive and sustained school finance reforms and improved student outcomes.

Emails obtained by CMD from Gov. Ducey's office reveal that he (and his predecessor) helped propel a secret «School Finance Reform Team»... The stated goal was for everyone on the school reform team to use their «different contacts to help get... legislation,» which would effectively divert more money from public schools to charter school coffers passed.

Fiscally Responsible FCSBM prioritizes the interests of students, parents, and taxpayers and pursues common - sense school finance reform to eliminate wasteful spending and advocate for a larger share of education expenditures to be directed into the classroom.

Bringing in national experts on school finance to CO to share what's happened in other states and what has / has not worked can help set the frame for school finance reform work in our state.

Currently, he is investigating the effects of court - ordered school finance reform using factor methods applied to panel data, and he is developing techniques for constructing welfare - adjusted NAEP scale scores..

Because for José school finance reform was never really an end in itself.

To offer a close examination of the ins and outs of one state's school finance reform process, WestEd and Education Resource Strategies recently released a case study describing how California passed, and has begun to implement, the LCFF.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

A new longitudinal study out of Berkeley demonstrates that school finance reform makes a real difference for students.

This study of California's recent major school finance reform, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), is among the first to provide evidence of LCFF's impacts on student outcomes.