Month: September 2019

The Education Exchange: Raising Student Achievement with Local Money – by Education Next

Carlos X. Lastra-Anadón, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University and an Assistant Professor at IE University in Madrid, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss their co-authored paper, “Who Benefits from Local Financing of Public Services? A Causal Analysis.” Read the full paper here. Follow The Education Exchange on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, ...

How Progressive is School Funding in the United States? – by Matthew M. Chingos

Policymakers, advocates, and the public have long been concerned with inequities in funding levels between schools attended by students from low-income families and their more affluent peers. School funding has received increased attention in recent years as multiple high-quality studies have found that school funding reforms initiated by courts and state legislatures improved...

In the News: California Teacher Tenure Laws Upheld – by Education Next

In California, the state Supreme Court has decided not to hear an appeal in Vergara vs. California, which means that teacher tenure laws in the state will stand. As NPR’s Richard Gonzalez explains Two years ago, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu ruled that tenure laws were unconstitutional because they made it virtually impossible to fire incompetent teachers, an...