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McKillip, Mary; Farrie, Danielle – Education Law Center, 2022
The Illinois Evidence-Based Funding for Student Success Act (EBF), a comprehensive overhaul of the state's school funding formula, was signed into law in August 2017. The Act requires an overall increase of more than $7 billion in state education aid and sets 2027 as the deadline to reach full funding of the EBF formula. The Act also sets $350…
Descriptors: School Funds, Educational Finance, Funding Formulas, State Legislation
Boston Foundation, 2018
The "Seventh Annual Report Card" provides the most up-to-date information available on Boston's education pipeline, from kindergarten through college graduation, including measures for school readiness, 3rd-grade reading proficiency, 6th-grade mathematics proficiency, 10th-grade academic proficiency, high school completion, dropout…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Reading Skills, Grade 3
Johnson, Jean – Kettering Foundation, 2014
At state and institutional levels, leaders are discussing and enacting policy changes that could shape the future of higher education for decades-especially public higher education. But when citizens talk about the mission of higher education today, their conversations are different from those of policymakers. How do their values and concerns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Public Opinion
American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
These three papers address educational improvement through partnerships between institutions of higher education and elementary/secondary schools. In the first paper, "Partnerships for America's Children," Kati Perry Haycock challenges educators in elementary/secondary schools and in higher education to use partnerships to create a continuum for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Black Students, Change Strategies
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Lueder, Donald C. – Educational Leadership, 1989
Explains two phases of Tennessee's statewide efforts to strengthen parent-school partnerships. One phase I program is based on Purkey's "Invitational Education" concept aiming to increase parent and community involvement. Phase II models include "Active Parenting,""New Parents as Teachers," and an "Operation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Mathematics Instruction, Parent Participation
Cities in Schools, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
This paper describes a plan proposed by the Institutional Development Corporation (IDC) for an integrated human service delivery system which would: (1) help disadvantaged youth develop remedial skills, improve their self-image, and prepare for the world of work; (2) become a catalyst for the integration of human services in local communities; and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth