Not exact matches
A prominent
school -
finance expert scheduled to testify last month in behalf of five New Hampshire
school districts that are suing the
state instead slammed the districts» lawyer for failing to pay him.
In 2003, Dr. Costrell's extensive
expert testimony in Massachusetts»
school finance case (Hancock v. Driscoll) proved critical to the successful defense of that
state's education reform program.
«Some
states are really throwing education under the bus,» said Bruce Baker, a
school finance expert at Rutgers University.
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.
The
School Finance Research Collaborative is bringing together top industry
experts to reexamine the
state's approach to funding K - 12
schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for jobs and success, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P.
Two of the programs we studied - Delta
State and San Diego's ELDA - offered full - year, paid administrative internships with
expert principals,
financed by the
State of Mississippi in one case and by San Diego city
schools through a foundation grant in the other.
State leaders merely need to decide their priorities in this reform effort and then have the
school finance experts build funding formulas to fulfill them.
CCJEF's
school finance experts calculated the gap between what the
state provides in
school aid and what our
schools and children need to be about $ 2 billion; based on 2004 standards, costs and demographics.
The project is an initiative of the
School Finance Research Collaborative, a bipartisan and diverse group of business leaders and education experts from Metro Detroit to the U.P. who are leading efforts to reexamine school funding in the
School Finance Research Collaborative, a bipartisan and diverse group of business leaders and education
experts from Metro Detroit to the U.P. who are leading efforts to reexamine
school funding in the
school funding in the
state.
The
School Finance Research Collaborative is bringing together top industry
experts to reexamine the
state's approach to funding K - 12
schools to ensure all students are fully prepared for jobs and success, from the inner cities to the suburbs, to rural areas and the U.P. (more...)