How States Are Rethinking Where School Funding Should Go

Changes might not be happening this year in Virginia, but here are a few ways other states are looking to revamp their funding formulas for K-12 schools.

States Are Pulling Back on K-12 Spending. How Hard Will Schools ...

... financial forecasts suggest boom times may be over ... Education Funding How States Are Rethinking Where School Funding Should Go.

Public education funding in the U.S. needs an overhaul

Furthermore, spending on public education should be retooled as an economic stabilizer, with increases automatically kicking in during ...

State funding methods influence schools' spending decisions

In the absence of that evidence, policymakers should be willing to distribute money flexibly based on student need, without conditions or ...

Leverage More Adequate and Equitable School Funding

Even conservative estimates of state funding cuts to schools suggest that states will need between $200 billion and $300 billion to stabilize their k–12 ...

The Case for a New School Finance Reform Agenda - FutureEd

They could require processes that aim for districts to encompass heterogeneous student populations and be supported by roughly similar local tax ...

Southern States Should Take Lead Role In Solving School Funding ...

By focusing on what matters most — student learning — districts can rethink ... Decisions on how these reserve funds will be critical, and all ...

States Should Bolster, Not Undermine, Education Gains Made with ...

Instead of cutting revenue that could be used for public education at such a time — as about half the states are already doing — states should ...

The Urgent Need to Rethink How We Fund Our Schools

Most alarming will most assuredly be increases in social, emotional and trauma-related concerns." Federal support, however, is not sustainable ...

Balancing Act: The Property Tax—School Funding Dilemma

... rethinking-property-tax-school-funding ... State aid helps address these disparities but can be unreliable during economic downturns and has the ...

Money, Schools and Justice - Rethinking Schools

Budget crises and belt-tightening will be the back-to-school themes in many districts this fall. A stagnant economy and the cumulative effects of years of state ...

What the United States gets wrong with public education funding ...

Public school students receive an education that lacks fiscal support. To combat this, the US needs to rethink its structure of funding and ...

5 Things to Advance Equity in State Funding Systems - EdTrust

But system leaders should also work to reduce concentrated poverty by redefining school and district boundaries, merging districts or schools, ...

A Quality Approach to School Funding - Center for American Progress

Education and child welfare programs should be fully funded. Research shows that money matters, especially for students in poverty. States ...

Rethinking the Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

Others suggest ways to improve state aid for K–12 education. A final recommendation argues for an expansion of federal education aid to assist low-income states ...

Rethinking the Revenue Side of the K-12 Funding Equation

Districts are supposed to receive enough of this state aid to meet their students' needs minus a reasonable “fair share” contribution in local ...

Rethinking School Governance 40 Years After 'A Nation At Risk'

What can be done? Since the publication of A Nation at Risk, reformers have variously turned to site-based management, state takeovers, and ...

Money, Schools, and Justice - Rethinking Schools

More recently, “adequacy” cases have focused on the gap between what school funding systems provide and what state and federal education standards (including ...

In Most States, Poorest School Districts Get Less Funding

The silver lining, researchers point out, is that the situation seems to be improving, albeit slightly. Since 2015, when The Education Trust ...

Shanker Blog: Rethinking the Revenue Side of the K-12 Funding ...

Districts are supposed to receive enough of this state aid to meet their students' needs minus a reasonable “fair share” contribution in local ...