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The Value Propositions Associated with Funding Research-Based K-12 Education Practices

Release: September 20, 2016

Given what the evidence says about the role education plays in building both an individual’s and a state’s economic competitiveness, the questions for policymakers become: Can the value of adequately investing in K-12 education be quantified? Is it possible to identify how making appropriate investments in specific, evidenced based educational practices today, can generate quantifiable economic and other benefits to society tomorrow? The answers, as it turns out, are yes and yes.

K-12 Education, Illinois Education Funding, Equity and Excellence, State Spending, Education Funding, Economic Impact

Why Illinois Should Adopt an Evidence-Based Education Funding Model

Release: July 13, 2016

To address both its inadequate and inequitable approach to school funding, Illinois should move to a funding system based on the Evidenced Based Model. Designed to identify the level of funding needed to deliver an adequate education to every student in a state and sensitive to each child’s needs, the Evidenced Based Model ensures that the distribution of education funding is equitable, and accounts for the cost of overcoming “at risk” factors.

The Evidenced Based Model determines per-pupil expenditures by identifying how much research-based “best practices” cost, given a state’s overall and regional labor market and other cost factors. Finally, the Evidenced Based Model identifies and costs-out those educational practices which the research shows to boost student achievement.

K-12 Education, Illinois Education Funding, School Budget, Equity and Excellence, State Spending, Education Funding Reform, Inequality

"For Each and Every Child"

Release: August 12, 2013

Ralph Martire's presentation on national education reform and the the federal Equity and Excellence Commission's report presented at the National Conference of State Legislators in Atlanta, GA.

Equity and Excellence, Education Funding Reform, State Spending, Federal Spending, Property Tax, Deficit, K-12 Education

For Each and Every Child: Appendix C Compendium

Release: February 13, 2013

Independently Authored Materials by Equity and  Excellence Commission Members

K-12 Education, Equity and Excellence, Federal Funding, Inequality

For Each and Every Child: A Strategy for Education Equity and Excellence

Release: February 2, 2013

For Each and Every Child is the federal Equity and Excellence Commission's report to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

K-12 Education, Equity and Excellence, Federal Funding, Inequality

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