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Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2018
With the majority of "good jobs" that pay a family-sustaining wage requiring at least some college education -- such as a technical certificate, associate degree, bachelor's degree or another credential of value -- ensuring the existence of high-quality postsecondary CTE [Career Technical Education] programs and programs of study is more…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Postsecondary Education, Program Validation
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, 2017
The Assessing Tuition- and Debt-Free Higher Education Task Force was convened in July 2016. Charged by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators's (NASFAA's) Board of Directors with evaluating the existing landscape of state and local promise programs with a focus on scaling such models to the national level, the task force…
Descriptors: Tuition, Debt (Financial), Paying for College, Higher Education
US Senate, 2017
This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines the role of states in higher education. Following opening statements by Honorable Tom Harkin (Chairman, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) and Honorable Lamar Alexander (U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee), the following senators provide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Government Role, State Government, Government School Relationship
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2018
Career Technical Education (CTE) teacher recruitment is a challenge that has dogged state CTE leaders for decades. According to a recent survey of State CTE Directors, 98 percent said that increasing access to industry experts is a high priority in their state. And 20.4 percent of rural districts with CTE teacher vacancies report that CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Salaries
Chapman, Anne; Mueller, Betsy; Henken, Rob – Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2018
Milwaukee's system of K-12 public education is distinct from many other urban school systems in the degree of educational choices offered to students and their families. This range of options has fostered intense competition among Milwaukee's K-12 schools over the past decade. While enrollment in traditional Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Finance
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2018
In recent years, competition for K-12 enrollment in Wisconsin among traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools using the state's voucher programs has intensified. Because elementary and secondary education finance in the state primarily is driven by enrollment, this has presented increasingly difficult fiscal conditions for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Finance