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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2023
Providing high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) requires robust, sustained funding designed to be responsive to both the rapidly evolving needs of industry and the diverse needs of learners. Advance CTE embarked on an analysis of states' secondary CTE funding models. In 2014, RTI International, with the support of Advance CTE, conducted…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Models
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Pinkard, Jim; Weeden, Dustin; LaBruyere, Matthew; Collins, Crystal L. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2022
This chapter describes a comprehensive set of best practices for the evaluation of state formula funding models and state higher education funding in general, based on existing practices within the United States. It represents a review of practices that lead to stakeholder engagement as an objective, collaborative process.
Descriptors: Best Practices, Funding Formulas, Models, State Aid
Complete College America, 2023
The United States cannot meet its higher education goals without changing the way it funds public colleges and universities. Current funding models do not sufficiently advance fully scaled improvements. Instead, today's models create unfunded mandates: Colleges are required to increase completion rates, but they do not receive essential funding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Graduation Rate, Outcome Based Education
Kelchen, Robert – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2022
Operating revenue for public higher education is derived from several sources, such as state appropriations, tuition, room and board, and contracts. State funding in particular constitutes a large share of revenue and is consequently critical for improving enrollment, completion, and labor market outcomes. However, states differ in how…
Descriptors: State Aid, Financial Support, Educational Finance, Public Colleges
Gilda Azurdia; Richard Kazis; Caroline Schultz; Katerina Galkin – MDRC, 2024
Postsecondary education and middle-skills occupational training are viewed as important paths to higher-paying jobs and careers. Lifelong learning pathways geared toward working learners aged 25 and older also seem essential for career advancement and professional growth in the current job market. However, many learners face financial and other…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Job Training, Access to Education, Student Costs
Fazlul, Ishtiaque; Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2022
Measures of student disadvantage--or risk--are critical components of equity-focused education policies. However, the risk measures used in contemporary policies have significant limitations, and despite continued advances in data infrastructure and analytic capacity, there has been little innovation in these measures for decades. We develop a new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Students, Prediction, Disadvantaged