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Krista Kaput; Titilayo Tinubu Ali; Jennifer O’Neal Schiess – Bellwether, 2024
Understanding how the District of Columbia (DC) funds District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) students and DC public charter school students is essential to ensuring all students receive the support they need as COVID-19 pandemic-era federal funds expire. The recent rise in the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula (UPSFF) and the boost in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Finance
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Podgursky, Michael; Aud Pendergrass, Susan; Hesla, Kevin – Education Next, 2018
Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them. Keeping public-school teachers' pensions plans flush is expensive, and it accounts for a growing share of education spending. In some states, public charter schools provide an…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Innovation, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits
Morrissey, Monique – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
Several studies have argued that teacher pensions are a raw deal for most teachers and should be replaced with account-style plans. This report examines research that most teachers working today are building a secure retirement. According to the author, the myth that most teachers get a raw deal while a lucky few receive generous pensions is based…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Compensation (Remuneration), Teaching Conditions
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
This twelfth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" evaluates each state's public charter school law against the 21 essential components of a strong charter school law. These 21 components are drawn from the National Alliance's "A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Law, State Legislation
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Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report presents school district leaders' views about staff turnover, hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Based on the survey responses of 292 district leaders from the American School District Panel (ASDP), the authors found that teacher and principal turnover had not increased substantially…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten, COVID-19
PACER Center, 2017
This toolkit was created to make transition planning easier and offers easy-to-understand information about the purpose of transition planning, the goal and importance of age-appropriate assessments, and the required rules that are used by schools. It also includes information on the community partners that can provide youth with supports as…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Planning, Disabilities, Guidelines