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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, September 2018
California's pension crisis hits disadvantaged students the hardest, plus developments in Memphis, Oklahoma, Nevada, and more.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, August 2018
Benefit spending is increasing much faster than K-12 spending overall and eating up a rising share of district budgets.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, July 2018
Puerto Rico's student-centered funding system gets green light.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2018
LAUSD's fiscal crisis can't be blamed on charter schools or declining enrollment.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, May 2018
Houston ISD Board approves performance audit.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, April 2018
Los Angeles Unified School District can no longer hide the full extent of its debt.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, March 2018
Kansas lawmakers negotiating school finance changes.
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, September 2017
“IPS believes the school is the unit of change in a school district. IPS is moving from a “directive” district - making decisions at the central level in a “one-size” fits all - to a "collaborative" district that shifts decisions to the school level."
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, July 2017
“Between fiscal years 1992 and 2014, inflation adjusted (“real”) per-student spending increased by 27 percent. However, real average salaries for public school teachers actually fell by 2 percent during this time period."
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2017
"There has been a growing understanding that school budgets are less about properly populating Excel spreadsheets and more about how to get great outcomes for kids."
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, May 2017
"Our results support the funding of students directly, using a weighted student funding formula, a.k.a. "backpack" funding."
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, April 2017
"If we seize the unprecedented opportunity this sleeper provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act offers, we will be better equipped to tackle some of education's most pressing issues"
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Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, March 2017
"The state's neediest students should actually receive the tax dollars that voters and the Legislature intended to spend on them."