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Student-Based Budgeting Newsletters


  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, September 2018
    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.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    September 26, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, August 2018
    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.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    August 30, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, July 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, July 2018

    Puerto Rico's student-centered funding system gets green light.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    July 30, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2018

    LAUSD's fiscal crisis can't be blamed on charter schools or declining enrollment.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    June 28, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, May 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, May 2018

    Houston ISD Board approves performance audit.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    May 31, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, April 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, April 2018

    Los Angeles Unified School District can no longer hide the full extent of its debt.   

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    April 27, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, March 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, March 2018

    Kansas lawmakers negotiating school finance changes.

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    March 29, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, January 2018
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, January 2018

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    January 30, 2018

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, December 2017
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, December 2017

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    December 27, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, November 2017
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, November 2017

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    November 29, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, October 2017
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, October 2017

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    October 31, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, September 2017
    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."

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    September 29, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, August 2017
    Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, August 2017

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    August 31, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, July 2017
    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."

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    July 28, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, June 2017
    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."

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    June 29, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, May 2017
    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."

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    May 31, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, April 2017
    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"

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    April 28, 2017

  • Center for Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, March 2017
    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."

    By Lisa Snell and Aaron Garth Smith
    March 31, 2017

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