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Rucker C. Johnson – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
In 2013, California implemented an ambitious school funding reform, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which allocates state funding by the proportion of unduplicated "high-need" students in the district: those from low-income families, English learners, and those in foster care. Using student-level longitudinal data for all…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Low Income Students
Klein, Steven G. – RTI International, 2015
Performance-based funding is a resource distribution strategy used in education to reward service providers for the outcomes they achieve. Institutions that produce above-average results earn additional financing, while those that fall short may face funding reductions and may be targeted for technical assistance to address their performance…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Incentives, Financial Support, Performance
Roza, Marguerite; Lake, Robin – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2015
Congress enacted the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) 50 years ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty." The most expansive federal education bill ever passed, it was developed as redress, establishing that poor children needed more educational services than wealthier children. Title I of the ESEA…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Poverty
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Faubert, Brenton – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
This article describes a study that examined the volume of secondary course failure and its direct budget impact on Ontario's K-12 public education system. The study employed a straightforward, descriptive accounting method to estimate the annual expenditure tied to secondary course failure, taking into account some factors known to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Failure, Budgets, Educational Finance
Children Now, 2016
According to the new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) law, most school districts in California are responsible for using LCFF funds to improve outcomes for children in the foster care system. Each district has created a Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP), the expenditure plan for LCFF. The LCAP is reviewed and revised annually by each…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School Districts, Early Childhood Education, Foster Care
Cook, Ellen D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Performance funding, the automatic and formulaic association of specific resources to institutional results on designated indicators, grew out of the accountability movement in higher education that originated in the 1950s and 1960s and redefined itself as the "new accountability" in the 1990s. To date, much of the literature on…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Higher Education, Performance
Rohrbach, Bradley Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to collect and evaluate data from the Porterville Unified School District to determine how the district receives its revenues as a result of the new Local Control Funding Formula and to research the extent to which the district is allocating resources using research-based strategies for district and school improvement…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School District Autonomy, Rural Schools, School Districts
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Parson, Laura; Steele, Ariel – College and University, 2019
This historiography of Hungarian higher education focuses on the evolution of academic freedom and institutional autonomy at Hungarian institutions of higher education. Through an exploration of trends in higher education policy, structure, and funding, the evolution of institutional autonomy and academic freedom provided a framework for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, Educational History
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Foster, John M.; Fowles, Jacob – Research in Higher Education, 2018
A rich interdisciplinary literature exists exploring the determinants of state higher education funding policies. However, that work has collectively ignored an important finding from political economy literature: namely, that citizens' preferences regarding public spending are strongly influenced by the state's ethnic and racial context. Drawing…
Descriptors: State Aid, Higher Education, Funding Formulas, State Policy
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Natale, Vickie C.; Jones, Stephanie J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
The study examined how institutional and student characteristics may influence the earning of student success points by state-supported community colleges under the Texas performance funding system that was fully implemented in the 2016-2017 biennium. Texas has historically funded community colleges based on an enrollment formula; however, the…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Case, Stephoni; Smith, Rob – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
The right to education depends upon a willingness to finance education fairly. Addressing the difference in educational achievement between learners of different backgrounds is a key aspect of fairness. Framed by contemporary neoliberal policies around marketisation and competitiveness, this paper examines fairness in the education finance policy…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Comparative Analysis
Stosich, Elizabeth Leisy; Bae, Soung – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
The Every Student Succeeds Act gives states greater flexibility in designing educational policy, but questions remain about whether and how states will use this opportunity to design truly innovative new policies to support higher levels of student learning. The authors describe how educational leaders in four states--California, Iowa, New…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Stakeholders, Educational Policy
Henig, Jeffrey R.; Lyon, Melissa Arnold; Moffitt, Susan L.; Plank, David N. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
California's education policy agenda, in particular the near-simultaneous implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), has created challenges and opportunities for the state. Coming on the heels of the Great Recession of 2008, these enormous shifts--the demands for substantially new teaching…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Governance, Common Core State Standards
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Baker, Bruce – Learning Policy Institute, 2018
This brief is based upon a report that reviewed research on the role of money in determining school quality. The research documents that resource investments matter for student outcomes, especially when they are directed to under-resourced districts and students from low-income families. The research also shows that spending resources in ways that…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Outcomes of Education, Public Schools, Resource Allocation
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Jonyo, Dorothy Owuor; Jonyo, Bonn Odera – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
This is a conceptual paper which reviewed teacher management in Kenya with a particular focus on the emerging issues. Organizations in all sectors are striving to succeed despite the many challenges they face including issues of globalization, rapid changes, especially changes in technology, leadership dynamics and increased competition among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Teacher Shortage, Educational Quality
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