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Stéphane Lavertu – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
For too long, Ohio underfunded its public charter schools. That policy was unfair to charter school students--many economically disadvantaged--whose educations received less taxpayer support simply by virtue of their choice of schools. It was also unfair to charter schools, which were required to serve children on fewer dollars than the districts…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, High Achievement, Charter Schools, State Aid
Morgan, Andrew J.; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric A.; Ost, Ben; Rivkin, Steven G. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large compensating differentials to attract and retain effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Public Schools, Poverty
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Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2022
An American School District Panel (ASDP) survey administered in fall 2021 revealed district leaders' widespread concerns about teacher, substitute, and bus driver shortages; political polarization interfering with schooling; students' mental health, behavior, and attendance; and declining student enrollment. In this report, we revisit these…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Political Attitudes, Mental Health, Student Behavior
Michael T. Hartney – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
School boards remain one of the most powerful forces in American education, helping to set curricula, evaluate teachers, and direct hundreds of billions of dollars in education funding. Yet teachers' unions play an outsized role in determining who serves on these boards. If the interests of teachers are perfectly aligned with those of students,…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Unions, Organizational Climate, Politics of Education
UK Department for Education, 2022
This government's Levelling Up mission for schools is that, by 2030, 90% of children will leave primary school having achieved the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, up from 65% in 2019. In addition, this white paper sets an ambition to increase the national GCSE average grade in both English language and in maths from 4.5 in 20193…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Institutional Mission, Reading Achievement, Writing Achievement
Houston Independent School District, 2021
Title I, Part A; Title II, Part A; and Title IV, Part A funds are provided to the Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). All three funds focus on enhancing student achievement. Title I, Part A…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education