At one urban charter school, an arts curriculum has addressed one of today’s most pressing education questions: How can schools keep students engaged?
For data to be used effectively to inform decision making, it needs to be accessible to the people who use it most: teachers.
School operations are often left out of the school reform conversation, but ensuring that schools are resourced, supported, and maintained efficiently is the foundation for effective change.
by Bryant Jones
Charter schools and their performance are often in the spotlight, but little attention is paid to the charter school authorizers that can make the difference between a school that fails and one that succeeds.
How can budgeting based on students instead of staff create a more equitable and rational allocation of funds among schools with differing needs?
by Ellen Foley and Karen Hawley Miles
How does student-based budgeting uncover hidden inequities in a district’s allocation of funds among schools?
by Jason Willis and Matt Hill
What can Oakland’s experience show us about how weighted student funding helps central offices shift their focus from compliance to giving principals the means to meet their students’ needs?
How does student-based budgeting in Baltimore provide principals with a “bounded autonomy” that allows them to build their own budgets in support of the programming most needed by their schools?
by Ellen Foley
What can New York City’s effort to shift to fair student funding reveal about the challenges of school finance reform in an environment of economic crisis?
by Naomi Calvo and Karen Hawley Miles
How does weighted student funding within a “strategic decentralization” reform strategy provide principals with the flexibility to budget around their schools’ needs?
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