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Linea Harding; Carrie Hahne – Bellwether, 2024
In 2022, Tennessee overhauled its education funding formula to improve outcomes for the 1 million students in the state. The Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement Act (TISA) was designed to simplify the existing funding formula and more equitably allocate resources to schools. Bellwether's case study, "After the Policy Win: First-Year…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Program Implementation, Educational Finance
Hahnel, Carrie; Marchitello, Max; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Bellwether, 2023
This report explains how the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) Act came to be and offers promising practices and lessons other states may adapt to their political and economic contexts. Through in-depth interviews with advocates and state leaders, the authors uncovered five factors that contributed to TISA's passage that have…
Descriptors: State Aid, Funding Formulas, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Finance