History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Three districts to radically alter funding
- 11-29-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Three districts, including Los Angeles Unified, aren’t waiting for an intractable state government to act on finance reform. They’re immersed in an experiment whose goal is a dramatic transformation of how schools are funded and run. If they stick to their timeline, most money and management decisions will shift from the district office to individual school sites – and to parents and teachers as well – within three years. Strategic School Funding for Results is a partnership involving Pasadena Unified, Twin Rivers Unified (a new unified district north of Sacramento), and initially more than 100 L.A. Unified schools, American Institutes for Research, and Pivot Learning Partners, a San Francisco-based nonprofit. It’s an outgrowth of work that Pivot leader Steve Jubb did with student-based budgeting in Oakland Unified. This project will go further in granting individual schools charter-school-like authority and flexibility, while addressing issues of equity and accountability. It will incorporate weighted student funding, a concept talked about for years at the state level, providing more money for low-income and high-needs students. (more…)
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