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Six Ways Congress Can Improve Education without More Bailouts. Backgrounder. No. 3561
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Schwalbach, Jude – Heritage Foundation, 2020
COVID-19 has provided the impetus for Congress to implement reforms, many of which are long overdue. Policymakers should take the necessary steps to restore educational autonomy to states and reduce federal regulations and compliance. This "Backgrounder" outlines six reforms that federal policymakers can undertake to free school leaders…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Finance
A Better Formula for Higher Education's Federal Coronavirus Funding: Increasing, Improving, and Accelerating Funding for Higher Education in the Next Stimulus Package
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Miller, Ben – Center for American Progress, 2020
At $14 billion, the investment in operating support for higher education institutions from the coronavirus relief bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, is the largest one-year federal infusion of funds going straight to colleges since the Great Recession. Yet it's nowhere close to enough. Many states have already…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Expenditures
The Evolution of Virginia Public School Finance: From the Beginnings to Today's Difficulties
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Salmon, Richard G. – Journal of Education Finance, 2010
Public elementary and secondary education, a vast, uneven and complex system, is the most significant cost to local government and one of the largest costs to state government in Virginia. Meeting this cost has become even more difficult as the state and nation continue to struggle with the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Income, Educational Finance, State Government
Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, 2nd Edition
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Ladd, Helen F., Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015
Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, with particular attention to elementary and secondary education. Chapters from the first edition have been fully updated and revised…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Proposition 76: State Spending and School Funding Limits. Voter Guide
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EdSource, 2005
On Nov. 8, 2005, California voters will decide whether to pass Proposition 76, known as the "Live Within Our Means Act." Sponsored by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the measure seeks to address state budget problems that have been particularly severe in California since 2002 due to cuts in state taxes and increases in state expenditures.…
Descriptors: Public Education, State Government, Taxes, Expenditures
Fiscal Profiles, 2004: The Thirteenth Annual in a Series of Factsheets about the Financing of California Higher Education. Commission Report 04-20
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California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2004
This report contains and analyzes statistical information about the financing of California postsecondary education from the 1965-66 fiscal year through 2004-05. In addition, there is information on California public elementary and secondary education financing as well as State government in general. The Commission compiles, disseminates and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Taxes, Comparative Analysis