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Costing
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Background Information and Fact Sheets
of Cost Studies Across the U.S.
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New Jersey Announces a New School Funding
Formula: But What About Abbott?
After a solid year of working
out the intricacies sowed by the mix of
money, schools and politics, New Jersey
governor Jon S. Corzine announced a long-awaited
new school funding plan. A New Formula
for Success: All Children, All Communities
was approved on an expedited basis by the
New Jersey Legislature on January 7, 2008.
Under the new formula, the state will allocate
approximately $7.8 billion to K-12 education
for fiscal year 2009, a seven percent and
$532 million increase to this year’s
education budget. Furthermore, all districts
will see a boost in school funding ranging
from 2 to 20 percent during the first two
years of its implementation. Read
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Connecticut Plaintiffs File Appeal
The
Connecticut Supreme Court has agreed to
give expedited consideration to Plaintiffs’
appeal of the Superior Court’s dismissal
last September of the adequacy claims in
Connecticut Coalition for Justice in
Education Funding v. Rell. The complaint
included both equity and adequacy claims;
the lower court’s order would permit
the equity claims, but not the adequacy
claims, to proceed to trial. Read
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Success Story – Title I’s
Targeted Funding Formula
As
Congress continues to consider the reauthorization
of the No Child Left Behind Act (“NCLB”),
the key debates have focused on policy issues
such as testing, teaching quality, and accountability,
but little attention has been given to the
distribution of funds, which have increased
over 40% since 2001. Significant changes
in the allocation of funds for Title I,
the largest program category under the Act,
were adopted as part of the NCLB revisions.
“The increase in targeting of federal
aid in NCLB is a success story that nobody
knows about,” stated Michael Dannenberg,
director of the education policy program
for the New America Foundation. Read
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Report Sees Substantial Improvement in Teacher
Quality
Teachers
entering the field are more academically
qualified today than they were a decade
ago, according to a new report by the Educational
Testing Service (ETS) Policy Information
Center issued in December 2007. Teacher
Quality in a Changing Policy Landscape:
Improvements in the Teacher Pool attributes
this trend to a number of policy changes
at the federal, state, and local levels
which have focused on teacher quality. The
study recommends a new type of federal-state
partnership to set common goals and standards
in this area for all the states. Read
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EDITORIAL: A Rekindled NCLB Suit
Raises Concerns
A
new wrinkle may have been added to the on-going
NCLB reauthorization debate this week. The
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
has given new life to a legal challenge
made by the National Education Association
and school districts from three states who
claim that language in the Act specifically
exempts states and school districts from
needing to spend any funds or incur any
compliance costs that are not paid for by
federal funds.
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