How can budgeting based on students instead of staff create a more equitable and rational allocation of funds among schools with differing needs?
by Ellen Foley and Karen Hawley Miles
How does student-based budgeting uncover hidden inequities in a district’s allocation of funds among schools?
by Jason Willis and Matt Hill
What can Oakland’s experience show us about how weighted student funding helps central offices shift their focus from compliance to giving principals the means to meet their students’ needs?
How does student-based budgeting in Baltimore provide principals with a “bounded autonomy” that allows them to build their own budgets in support of the programming most needed by their schools?
by Ellen Foley
What can New York City’s effort to shift to fair student funding reveal about the challenges of school finance reform in an environment of economic crisis?
by Naomi Calvo and Karen Hawley Miles
How does weighted student funding within a “strategic decentralization” reform strategy provide principals with the flexibility to budget around their schools’ needs?
by Joanne Thompson, Tracie Potochnik and Ellen Foley
How are school districts working with outside partners to build comprehensive human capital development systems that result in high-quality teaching at scale?
by Ellen Foley
How do good data systems support school improvement at scale – not only by informing decision making, but also by building relationships and enhancing equity?
What is the crucial role of the school as an organization in enhancing teaching quality, in addition to recruiting and rewarding the most talented individual teachers?
by Carrie Leana
Why should current discussions of human capital in education always include the often-overlooked but crucial role of social capital?
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