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Brian Backstrom – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
Starting in 2015, New York State began offering college financial assistance to individuals who have experienced foster care at any point after the age of 13. Recognizing the unique needs of this student population and the desire to provide additional support, the Foster Youth College Success Initiative (FYCSI) was created to encourage and ease…
Descriptors: College Students, Foster Care, Student Financial Aid, Paying for College
Brian Backstrom; Patrick Schumacher – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, currently providing affordable, quality higher education to about 1.4 million students across its system of 64 college and university campuses and its entire portfolio of credit- and noncredit-bearing courses and programs,…
Descriptors: Public Education, State Colleges, Economic Impact, Industry
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
The New York State Board of Regents' 2004-05 State Aid Proposal put forward the idea of instituting Foundation Aid as a response to concerns about the sufficiency of state education funding then being provided to local school districts. In 2007, prompted by legal action, a call for reform by the Regents, and the election of a new governor with a…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, State Aid, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
Alawsaj, Manal; Berman, Max; Mujaj, Teuta; Rankin, Kayla – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
Research has demonstrated the wide-ranging and positive benefits from high-quality publicly-funded prekindergarten education. Yet, access for families with young children remains uneven, with significant gaps across geography, income, race, and ethnicity. Over the last few decades, many states have worked to broaden access to prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Policy, Educational Policy, Access to Education
Melodie Baker; Brian D. Backstrom – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
This "Building Capacity for Change" "playbook" highlights practices and strategies that proved to be effective in supporting the rollout and implementation of certain programs under the New York State Department of Health's First 1,000 Days on Medicaid Initiative, a series of evidence-based reforms aimed at improving health and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Parents, Health Insurance
Brent R. Klein; Joshua D. Freilich; Steven M. Chermak – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
The American School Shooting Study (TASSS) is an ongoing mixed-method project funded by the National Institute of Justice to catalog US school shootings. It has amassed data based on open sources and other public materials dating back to 1990. This brief presents new insights from TASSS, diving deeper into the database's potential to examine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Weapons, School Violence, Crime
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2022
As the 2021-22 academic year came to a close, the United States was rocked by the news of another school mass shooting, this time at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen fourth-grade students and two of their teachers were killed when an 18-year-old former student entered the school through an unlocked door, made his way to his former…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Violence, Weapons, Student Behavior
Clayton, Katy; Backstrom, Brian – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
College tuition at public institutions across the country rose by 36.2 percent on average over the decade 2008-09 to 2018-19. The average total cost of college, accounting for all expenses such as room and board, across all institutions public and private grew by 22.4 percent. Students and their families are borrowing an enormous amount of money…
Descriptors: Tuition, Paying for College, Costs, State Universities
Schultz, Laura; Backstrom, Brian – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
As did the vast majority of higher education institutions, SUNY implemented test-optional admissions policies across all campuses for students applying to enroll in Fall 2021. SUNY and its peers made this decision in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced applicants' access to SAT/ACT testing. A majority of these schools have…
Descriptors: College Admission, Educational Policy, College Entrance Examinations, Program Implementation
Backstrom, Brian – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
Nearly 43 million college student borrowers across the United States owe more than $1.56 trillion in outstanding federal student loans. The number of student borrowers in the country has increased by 1.3 million, or 3.1 percent, over the past five years, while the amount of outstanding student debt in the country has increased by a whopping $…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, College Students
Natow, Rebecca S. – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
Broadly conceptualized, federal-state partnerships refer to collaborations between the federal government and states to create or implement policy. In the higher education policy arena, such partnerships have the potential to transform how higher education is funded and regulated, making college more affordable and more accessible to a larger…
Descriptors: Federal State Relationship, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Partnerships in Education
Gais, Thomas; Backstrom, Brian; Frank, Jamie; Wagner, Alan – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2019
There has been an ongoing dialogue among education stakeholders across the nation about impending teacher shortages, and individual states have been grappling with how to properly detect and deal with potential gaps. But are there really shortages? If so, in what regions of the country or in states and to what degree of severity? What type of…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Student Ratio
Backstrom, Brian – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2019
Over the past half-century, billions of dollars have been spent across the nation on efforts to transform low-performing public schools -- most of them urban, most of them low-income, and most of them disproportionately enrolled with students of color -- into models of success. It hasn't worked. The failure of attempts to remedy the state of urban…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, School Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Failure
Lee, Jaekyung; Kim, Namsook; Cobanoglu, Ayse; O'Connor, Michael – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2019
The balanced development of cognitive and noncognitive skills is crucial not only for well-rounded child development in schools but also for career and life success. Unlike academic learning standards, however, there are rarely comparable "socioemotional learning" (SEL) standards. Under the pressure of high-stakes testing policies…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Social Development, Emotional Development
Craft, Trevor; Gonzalez, Nicholas; Kelleher, Kevin; Rose, MIKI; Takor, Ofu – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2019
College-in-prison programs are run by accredited universities and colleges, and allow participants to earn college degrees intended to facilitate positive real-world outcomes outside of the criminal justice system. Reduced rates of recidivism and increased employment opportunities are among the most cited benefits of providing higher education to…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Postsecondary Education, Institutionalized Persons