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School Funding School Leaders State Leaders Funding & Portfolio

March 12, 2019

Weighted Student Funding

ERS has partnered with a number of districts on implementing weighted student funding (WSF), which is also known as fair student funding or student-based budgeting. This presentation... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations
April 2017

Connected Professional Learning for Teachers

Teachers need more support to meet the demands of college and career ready standards. Where can schools systems find the money, staff, and time to provide truly transformational... More »

Compensation Publications District Leaders School Leaders ERS in California
May 2011

A Strategic Spending Review of Syracuse City School District

ERS final report summarizing research on the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and the participative community “work-out” process that was held in response to research results. The... More »

School Design Special Education School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Presentations District Leaders
March 18, 2013

School Funding Systems Analyses and Worksheets: Section 1

The School Funding System worksheet series includes analysis sheets on the spending variation per pupil and worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure... More »

School Funding Tools
March 18, 2013

School Funding Systems Analyses and Worksheets: Section 2

The School Funding System worksheet series includes analysis sheets on the spending variation per pupil and worksheets with step-by-step instructions to help you calculate and measure... More »

School Funding Tools
March 15, 2013

Freeing School Resources for Learning

Nationwide, districts and states seek to place more accountability for student performance with principals and teachers at the school level. We have found that schools implementing... More »

School Design School Funding
March 15, 2013

Matching Spending with Strategy

The national focus on creating “standards based” schools and “accountability” is pushing school districts and schools to define their goals and priorities for student learning more... More »

School Funding
March 13, 2013

Rethinking School System Resources to Create Excellence and Equity

This New American Schools District Issues Brief provides an overview of three challenges related to the use and organization of resources as districts move to create higher performing... More »

School Design School Funding
March 13, 2013

School Budget Report for School District of Philadelphia: 2008-2009

In the fall of 2007, Education Resource Strategies (ERS) was invited by Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission to conduct a Resource Use Analysis for the School District of Philadelphia... More »

School Funding Presentations
March 12, 2013

VUE: Voices in Urban Education

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform’s Voices in Urban Education publication, produced in partnership with ERS, grew from the ERS-convened Fair Student Funding Summit in March 2010.... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications
March 2013

Funding District Story: U-46, Elgin, Illinois

In 2008, the U-46 School District in Illinois faced a budget deficit of $45 million. Instead of deciding to do less with limited funds, the district worked with the school board and... More »

School Funding Presentations Funding & Portfolio
October 2012

Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City

This full report of Baltimore Public Schools (City Schools) explores the implementation process and results of a fair student funding system. Fair Student Funding in Baltimore City (PDF) More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
September 2012

Fair Student Funding and Other Reforms

After examining Baltimore City Public Schools' implementation of fair student funding and accompanying reforms, ERS shares the extent to which City Schools met the objectives and... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Presentations Publications
January 17, 2012

Denver Public Schools: ERS Resource Mapping Summary Report

In January 2012, ERS delivered a public presentation to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education which summarized the results and recommendations stemming from of our year-long... More »

School Design School Funding Presentations
November 2011

School Budget Hold’em

School Budget Hold'em is more than a game, it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times. More »

School Funding Tools
October 2011

Transformation or decline?

Tough times provide school districts with the opportunity to make big changes, helping alleviate the budget pressure in the short term and create a new foundation that will provide the... More »

Leadership School Design Special Education School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
September 2011

Realigning Resources for District Success

After one year of in-depth resource analysis, ERS released a report on Duval County Public Schools (DCPS), Realigning Resources for District Success. The report provides a blueprint for... More »

Leadership School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Presentations
January 2011

How States Can Support Transformation in Tough Times

With escalating education costs in a time of declining school budgets, ERS articulates for state leaders opportunities to shift scarce funds toward the most critical areas. ERS Executive... More »

School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Presentations State Leaders
October 2010

Memphis White Paper

If your school district is facing a budget issue, it might surprise you to learn that the solution might very well lie in a game of cards. That certainly was the case Memphis City... More »

School Funding Presentations Publications
September 2010

School Funding Systems

You’re a district leader who wants to see higher student achievement and balance your district budget—and that is getting harder. Budget cuts loom for at least another couple of years.... More »

School Funding
March 2010

Fair Student Funding Summit: District Summaries

In March 2010, urban education leaders gathered in Baltimore, MD for the Fair Student Funding Summit, a conference that brought together districts that use weighted student funding (WSF)... More »

School Funding Student-Based Budgeting Publications Funding & Portfolio
2010

Making Strategic Resource Decisions

This chapter of Smart Money: Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals, edited by Jacob Adams, provides a framework for describing strategic school resource use... More »

School Design School Funding
November 2009

Are You Getting the Most Out of Your ARRA Spending?

These are tough times for schools and districts, and they will get tougher. Federal stimulus funds have created some breathing room, but unless districts use these funds to plan for and... More »

School Design School Funding School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching
April 2009

Realigning Resources for District Transformation

This paper, written with the Center for American Progress, gives state and district leaders 15 concrete ways to use all resources—current and new—for long-term transformation. More »

Leadership School Design School Funding School Partners and Community School Support Standards and Curricula Teaching Publications
March 20, 2008

Cost of Small High Schools: A Literature Review

In this review, we consider the limited research on small high school expenditures, resource use, and constraints to understand the key questions surrounding the cost of small high... More »

School Design School Funding
2008

The Strategic School

How can schools best use the resources they already have? That question is at the heart of this inspiring book for school and district administrators challenged with increasing student... More »

School Design School Funding School Support Teaching Publications
2008

District Spending in Small and Large High Schools

Do districts have to spend more to create small schools? This report finds that three large urban districts spend more on small high schools than on large high schools — but they don’t... More »

School Design School Funding Publications
2008

By Design Not Default

School districts across the country are redesigning their portfolios of high schools to include more small high schools. ERS’s work demonstrated a clear and consistent pattern: districts... More »

School Design School Funding Publications
June 2006

Fund the Child

Funding that truly “follows” the child means moving a real dollar amount between school budgets as a specific child moves between schools or even districts. The school that the child... More »

School Funding
2006

Understanding Student-Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity

As attention shifts to how districts allocate resources to schools, student-weighted allocation has emerged as an alternative to traditional staff-based allocation policies.... More »

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