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Lalonde, Trent; Tsai, Chia-Lin; Clemens, Elysia V.; Myers, Kristin; Sheesley, Alison P.; Tolliver, Liz; McElhinney, Christie – Grantee Submission, 2020
Three out of four jobs now require education or training beyond high school, yet some students face formidable barriers to attending college. Disruptions to K-12 education, trauma, loss, food insecurity, and housing instability are known impediments to the educational success of youth who have been in foster care. These types of challenges may…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Barriers, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education
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Wolf, Rebecca; Sands, Janelle – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
California recently overhauled its K-12 public education finance system. Enacted in 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) replaced California's 40-year-old funding formula. The LCFF increases district officials' fiscal flexibility; provides more resources to districts serving larger proportions of low-income, English learner (EL), and…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Foster, Laura Rasmussen; Klein, Steve; Elliott, Barbara – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2014
The "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006" ("Perkins IV" or "Act") authorizes federal funding for career and technical education (CTE) and specifies a formula for distributing those funds. Allocations at the secondary level are based on the number of youths ages 5-17 who reside within a local…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, State Aid
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Krovetz, Martin – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2016
As the Director of LEAD, an affiliated center with the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), the author and his colleagues have the opportunity to work with teachers and administrators to develop "Habits of Mind" and "Habits of Character" that focus expectations for students and teachers. Habits of Mind are aligned with Bloom's…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, School Culture, Poverty