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- With New Data, School Finance is Coming Out of the Dark Ages
- Productivity Improvements Paper Series
- The Equity Problem in Teacher Pensions
- Are public universities neglecting in-state students?
- Productivity is sometimes seen as a dirty word in education
- The Smart Money: Designing a school budget to get the most for your school dollar
- Productivity is sometimes seen as a dirty word in education. But it does not have to be.
- Breaking tradition: A fixed-dollar pay raise strategy that benefits teachers and school districts
- Highly Productive Rural Districts: What is the Secret Sauce?
- Promoting Productivity: Lessons from Rural Schools
- Turning a Benefits Conundrum into a Potential Opportunity for Teachers and Students
- Title I: Time to Get It Right
- Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students
- Innovation Amid Financial Scarcity: The Opportunity in Rural Schools
- The Phantom Menace: Policies that Protect Districts from Declining or Low Enrollments, Drive Up Spending and Inhibit Adaptation
- How Late-Career Raises Drive Teacher-Pension Debt
- The Real Deal on K-12 Staffing
- Denver Public Schools: Making More Money Follow Students
- What Portion of District Funds Follow Students?
- Boston Public Schools: Weighting What Matters
- A State Information System to Support Improvements in Productivity
- Funding for Student's Sake: How to Stop Financing Tomorrow's Schools Based on Today's Priorities
- To What Extent Are State and Local Monies Disbursed on the Basis of Students
- SEA of the Future: Building the Productivity Infrastructure
- Civic Vitality and Public Education Productivity: The Harbormaster Mayor
- The SEA of the Future: Prioritizing Productivity
- Teacher Retirement Benefits: Defining a More Active Role for SEAs and Their Chiefs
- Leveraging Productivity for Progress: An Imperative for States
- The High Price of Excess Credits
- More Students, More Degrees, More Dollars
- Funding Phantom Students
- How Current Education Governance Distorts Financial Decisionmaking
- The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: De-emphasizing the Role of Master's Degrees in Teacher Compensation
- Stretching the School Dollar: A Brief for State Policymakers
- Curing Baumol's Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in Public Education
- A False Dilemma: Should decisions about education resource use be made at the state or local level?
- Breaking Down School Budgets: Following the Dollars into the Classroom
- Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go?
- Have States Disproportionately Cut Education Budgets During ARRA? Early Findings
- Now is a Great Time to Compute the Per-Unit Cost of Everything in Education
- Seniority-Based Layoffs Will Exacerbate Job Loss in Public Education
- What is the Sum of the Parts?
- Understanding Student-Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity
- How Districts Shortchange Low-Income and Minority Students
- Pennywise and Pound Foolish in Education
- A Cost Allocation Model for Shared District Resources: A Means for Comparing Spending Across Schools
- Leveling the Playing Field: Creating Funding Equity Through Student-Based Budgeting
Rapid Response Series
- Taking stock of California’s weighted student funding overhaul: What have districts done with their spending flexibility?
- Did districts concentrate new state money on highest-needs schools? Answer: Depends on the district.
- California’s weighted student funding formula: Does it help money matter more?
- Funding Student Types: How states can mine their own data to guide finance policy on high-needs students
- Analyzing early impacts of California’s Local Control Funding Formula
- College credit in high school: Doing the math on costs
- Productivity Improvements Paper Series
- The Equity Problem in Teacher Pensions
- Breaking tradition: A fixed-dollar pay raise strategy that benefits teachers and school districts
- Turning a Benefits Conundrum into a Potential Opportunity for Teachers and Students
- Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students
- How Late-Career Raises Drive Teacher-Pension Debt
- The Real Deal on K-12 Staffing
- Civic Vitality and Public Education Productivity: The Harbormaster Mayor
- The High Price of Excess Credits
- More Students, More Degrees, More Dollars
- Student-Based Allocation to Enable School Choice
- Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings
- Are Residents Losing Their Edge in Public University Admissions? The Case at the University of Washington
- What Happens to Teacher Salaries During a Recession?
- The Opportunity Cost of Smaller Classes: A State-By-State Spending Analysis
- Q&A on the Chicago Teachers Contract Math
- Chicago Teacher Salaries in the Regional Chicago Context
- The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers
- Washington State High Schools Pay Less for Math and Science Teachers than for Teachers in Other Subjects
- The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students
- K–12 Job Trends Amidst Stimulus Funds: Early Findings
- Beyond Teacher Reassignments: Better Ways Districts Can Remedy Salary Inequities Across Schools
- Have States Disproportionately Cut Education Budgets During ARRA? Early Findings
- Seniority-Based Layoffs Will Exacerbate Job Loss in Public Education
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- Webinar: Training Principals for Budgeting at the School Level
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- Webinar: An Introduction to Student Based Allocation
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