Budgeting for Educational Equity
Budgeting for Educational Equity
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The Education News Comedy Quiz -- A New Show To Help You Process the Latest Goings-On From the World of Public Education
Looking for a fun and informative way to make sense of all the latest education news? The Education News Comedy Quiz -- Some of the Above is a new podcast you may enjoy. It's co-hosted and produced by one of the producers of Budgeting for Educa...
Meeting the Needs of All Students: How Can Educators, Leaders and Education Systems Better Attend to the Intersection of Language and Disability for Multilingual Learners
This episode we’re bringing attention to an important but still under-examined subject: the need for schools and school systems to better attend to the intersection of language and disability for young multilingual learners. ...
What You Need To Know about California’s New Equity Multiplier – And Related School Accountability System Changes
The Equity Multiplier -- a new $300 million component to California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) -- is rolling out this school year. Guests Natalie Wheatfall-Lum and Sara Pietrowski join Jason Willis to describe how...
School Closures and Consolidations in California: Deepening Our Understanding
Closing or consolidating neighborhood schools is a painful decision that no school district or community ever wishes to face, but increasingly it may be on the table due to declining enrollment trends and budgetary pressures. In thi...
Advancing Equity Through Locally-Driven School Funding Formulas: Los Angeles USD's Groundbreaking Student Equity Need Index (the "SENI")
California's Local Control Funding Formula or LCFF took a major step towards advancing equity. But as LCFF came into existence 10 years ago, education and community leaders in the state’s largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, reco...