Finance & Productivity
The Center’s work is based on two premises: that public schools should be measured against the goal of educating all children well, and that current institutions too often fail to achieve this goal. Our research uses evidence from the field and lessons learned from other sectors to understand complicated problems and to design innovative and practical solutions for policymakers, elected officials, parents, educators, and community leaders. Our work on explores the role of K-12 finance and resource use in education reform, including research on district allocation practices and efforts to remove barriers to efficient and adaptive uses of funds.
Finance, Spending, and Productivity Project
The Finance, Spending, and Productivity Project seeks to understand how money is used in public schools and suggest how funds might be used as effectively as possible.
School Finance Redesign Project
The School Finance Redesign Project (SFRP) examines how K-12 finance can be redesigned to better support student performance.
Featured Publications
A Leap of Faith: Redesigning Teacher Compensation
Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber
What Is the Sum of the Parts? How Federal, State and District Funding Streams Confound Efforts to Address Different Student Types
Marguerite Roza, Kacey Guin, Tricia Davis
What if We Closed the Title I Comparability Loophole?
News
More News06/18/2008 School funding maze frustrates effort to close student achievement gaps
05/15/2008 It’s the policy: Education funding shortchanges poorest students
04/30/2008 The End of School Finance As We Know It
Education Week
02/29/2008 Putting students first: Playing second fiddle to finances, teacher contracts, politics
Seattle PI
12/19/2007 Reform the way we pay teachers
The Seattle Times
