At a series of panels cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, education experts discussed ways in which America’s education system could improve results by getting “more bang for the buck through the use of technology, or in special education,...
For the second year in a row, “Idaho missed all of its yearly benchmarks in math and English for vulnerable student populations,” reports Clark Corbin for IdahoEdNews.org. Missing “all 22 of the math and English language arts interim targets identified in the consolidated state plan...
In this piece—which is part of Education Week’s managing the money report—Daarel Burnette II explores how ESSA “enshrines” the dictum that to budget effectively, you need to know how you spend your money. Federal law requires “for the first time that each state conduct a...
On September 30 at 11am PT/2pm ET, BSCP Center will host a webinar with Edunomics Lab to provide guidance for states on conducting ESSA-required Resource Allocation Reviews (RARs) to support school improvement. RARs offer a new opportunity for state, district, and school leaders to examine the connection between...
In Evanston, Illinois, a new report—based on ESSA-required school-level spending data—to the District 65 school board “shows a $42,000 range in per pupil spending from school to school across the district…and a $5,000 difference across the K-8 schools.” According to district business manager Kathy Zalewski,...
In the Florida Phoenix, Diane Rado reports on the Sunshine State’s release of school-level spending data as required by ESSA. This data, she says, could be “an eye opener,” given the incredible disparity in per-student spending from school to school. For example, “in the Collier...
Thanks to ESSA’s financial transparency requirements, the public in Alabama is getting a closer look at how much schools are spending to educate the state’s children. These numbers, writes Trisha Powell Crain for AL.com, are “all over the map, varying widely between districts and between...
Jane Porath, an 8th grade mathematics teacher at Traverse City East Middle School in Michigan and a Educators for High Standards Teacher Champion, takes on the complex issue of fairness versus equity in education funding.. The Every Students Succeeds Act requires states to track and...
Daarel Burnette II reports for Education Week that several superintendents in Massachusetts “are spending more money on schools that enroll mostly wealthy students than they are on schools that educate mostly poor students, even though the state designed its funding formula to do the exact...
In Education Next, Marguerite Roza, Director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, takes a look at education finance—and considers the question of why most people “jump to the revenue side of the equation”? The “spending...
