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Gann, Nigel – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
In earlier issues of FORUM, Nigel Gann has written on the impact of academisation on state-funded schools and the growing democratic deficit in educational leadership. In 2018, Andrew Allen and Nigel Gann wrote on the dismantling of the English education service and offered some suggestions for a new representative model. This article explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democratic Values, Leadership, Commercialization
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Genevieve Graaf; Lonnie Snowden – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
The investigators conducted a qualitative study with state administrators and policymakers about the financing and policies that structure public systems of care for children with complex behavioral healthcare needs. The objective was to characterize diverse strategies states employed to enhance funding for, access to, and quality and…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Full State Funding, Community Health Services, Public Health
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Natalie Bradbury – History of Education, 2024
This paper explores the British art patronage scheme "Pictures for Schools," which sold affordable works of art to educational buyers at annual exhibitions between 1947 and 1969, focusing on the work of "Pictures for Schools" founder and organiser Nan Youngman (1906-1995) as an artist, educationalist and activist. It shows…
Descriptors: War, World History, Artists, Educational History
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Hyunwoo Yang – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Many states and communities have invested in public early childhood education programs to improve children's readiness to enter school and narrow achievement gaps in later grades. This study asked whether and how Wisconsin's universal state-funded prekindergarten program, Wisconsin 4K, has improved student achievement and helped to reduce the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grade 3, Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education
Julien Lafortune; Iwunze Ugo; Brett Guinan – Public Policy Institute of California, 2024
With pandemic stimulus funding subsiding, efforts to boost achievement, stem absenteeism, and narrow outcome gaps in California's TK-12 public school system will rely on the level and sustainability of ongoing state and local dollars. First implemented over 10 years ago, California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) provides additional funding…
Descriptors: Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid), Financial Needs, Financial Support, Student Needs
Sirena Covington – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This correlational quantitative study examined a five-year (2014-2019) trend to analyze whether there is a relationship between the level of state funding and the enrollment and graduation rates of students of color attending public institutions in Illinois. For the purposes of this study, the students of color include the following groups:…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Public Colleges, Correlation, Trend Analysis
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2019
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. The topics for this report on dual language learners and state-funded preschool include: (1) Number of All Children Including Dual Language Learners (DLLs) Enrolled in State-Funded Preschool Programs…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Preschool Education, Full State Funding, English (Second Language)
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2022
In a dedicated effort to build high-quality, equitable career pathways Advance CTE, in partnership with Education Strategy Group through JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s "New Skills ready network," released "Braiding Funding To Support Equitable Career Pathways." This policy brief is the fourth in a series designed to help build…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Financial Support, Objectives, Stakeholders
William A. Fischel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
This article reviews the development of my thesis that the California Supreme Court's Serrano decisions, which began in 1971 and sought to disconnect district school spending with local property taxes, led to the fiscal conditions that caused California voters to embrace Proposition 13 in 1978, which radically undermined the local property tax…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Taxes, Place of Residence, Politics of Education
Going, Mary Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
To offset economic challenges within schools, there has been a recent increase in foundation funding to school districts. This has created a significant social justice issue in student access and student participation across the state of California. The competing interests of local school communities to shore up inadequate state funding often…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Public Schools, School Districts, Student Participation
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Putnam, Michael; Cabrera, Jill – SAGE Open, 2015
The funding mechanism for the public schools in the state of Mississippi had been surprisingly stable for a number of years. The funding formula existed in its same form for over a half century before it was substantially changed in 1994 when the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) legislation was passed. This is the first external…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, State Programs, Public Schools
Jones, Calvin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this historical/descriptive study was to determine the status of lottery revenue generation and allocations to education across the United States that had lotteries. More specifically, the study profiled the number of states which used lottery revenue for education during the year 2004, the types of these lotteries, levels of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Income, Budgets, Public Education
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Driscoll, Katherine C.; Wang, Lijuan; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Pianta, Robert C. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: Banking Time is a set of techniques designed to promote positive, supportive relationships through 1-on-1 interactions between teachers and children. Web-based training resources were made available to 252 preschool teachers who received different levels of support as a component of a professional development intervention, and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Preschool Education, Banking, Preschool Teachers
Leonard, Ed; Box, Jennifer A. L. – Online Submission, 2010
State funding mechanisms are subject to intense political and economic scrutiny. The question asked most often tends to be, is the public getting sufficient return on their investment? Accountability standards arising from the No Child left Behind Act (NCLB) have sharpened the focus of this question to whether the students and schools are meeting…
Descriptors: Full State Funding, Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness
Compton, Benjamin Hasty – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation addresses the consequences of political influence on state higher education funding at the committee level. The State of South Carolina has a long history of using a formula to determine the appropriate amount of funding that is to be allocated to its colleges and universities. I use the funding level implied by the South…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Taxes, Committees, Private Colleges
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