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Center on Education Policy Publications
After the Stimulus Money Ends: The Status of State K-12 Education Funding and Reforms
Published: February 7, 2012
This report, which is based on a fall 2011 survey of state education agency officials, finds that state spending cuts for K-12 education seemed to have bottomed out in many states, although some states are still strapped for funds. The report also examines states’ efforts to implement the four school reforms they promised to address in their applications for federal stimulus funds.
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Report (PDF format, 597 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=RentnerKober%5FReport%5FAfterStimulus%5F020612%2EpdfPress Release (PDF format, 19.9 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FAfterStimulus%5F020612%2Epdf
Appendix (PDF format, 17.6 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Appendix%5FAfterStimulus%5F020612%2Epdf
State Education Agency Funding and Staffing in the Education Reform Era
Published: February 7, 2012
This report, which is based on a fall 2011 survey of state education agency officials, finds that state funds for state education agency operations are being cut or level-funded in most states despite an improved outlook for overall education spending at the state level. To make up for the loss in this operational funding, most state education agencies are reducing their staffing costs. However, many states are maintaining, and sometimes increasing, state agency staff assigned to school reform efforts.
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Report (PDF format, 545 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=KoberRentner%5FReport%5FSEAFundStaff%5F020612%2EpdfPress Release (PDF format, 19.9 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FSEAFundStaff%5F020612%2Epdf
Appendix (PDF format, 17.6 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Appendix%5FSEAFundStaff%5F020612%2Epdf
A Civil Right to a Good Education
Published: January 30, 2012
This January 30, 2012 Huffington Post blog by CEP President Jack Jennings reviews past national movements to improve schools and proposes a new effort where a good education would become a civil right for all. The blog summarizes Jennings’ January 2012 paper Reflections on a Half-Century of School Reform: Why Have We Fallen Short and Where Do We Go From Here?
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Blog Post (PDF format, 79.7 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Jennings%5FBlog%5F%20CivilRight%5F1%2E30%2E12%2EpdfReflections on a Half-Century of School Reform: Why Have We Fallen Short and Where Do We Go From Here?
Published: January 27, 2012
Upon his retirement from the leadership of CEP, Jack Jennings reviews in this paper the three major school reform efforts of the last 50 years, proposes an agenda focused on the classroom, and advocates for the creation of a federal civil right to a good education to advance that agenda.
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Paper (PDF format, 478 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Jennings%5FPaper%5FReflections%5F1%2E27%2E12%2EpdfPress Release (PDF format, 49.3 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FReflections%5F1%2E27%2E12%2Epdf
The Evolution of the Center on Education Policy: From An Idea To A Major Influence
Published: January 27, 2012
This paper by free lance writer Anne Lewis describes the beginning and the development of the Center on Education Policy from 1995 to 2012.
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Paper (PDF format, 247 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Lewis%5FPaper%5FEvolution%5F1%2E27%2E12%2EpdfPress Release (PDF format, 49.3 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FEvolution%5F1%2E27%2E12%2Epdf
Year Two of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: States' Progress and Challenges
Published: January 25, 2012
This report, based on a fall 2011 survey of 35 Common Core State Standards-adopting states (including the District of Columbia), examines states’ progress in transitioning the new standards. The vast majority of the states in the survey believe that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are more rigorous than previous state academic standards in math and English language arts. The vast majority of survey states are taking steps to familiarize state and district officials with the new standards and to align curriculum and assessments. However, most of the states in the survey do not expect to fully implement the standards until 2014-15 or later. In addition, a majority of the responding states caution that having adequate resources is a major challenge to full implementation of the CCSS.
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Report (PDF format, 279 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=KoberRentner%5FReport%5FCommonCore%5F1%2E25%2E12%2EpdfPress Release (PDF format, 26.9 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=PressRelease%5FCommonCore%5F1%2E25%2E12%2Epdf
Appendix (PDF format, 17.6 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=Appendix%5FCommonCore%5F1%2E25%2E12%2Epdf
A Public Education Primer: Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System, 2012 Revised Edition
Published: January 19, 2012
The 2012 Public Education Primer highlights important and sometimes little-known facts concerning the U.S. education system, how things have changed over time, and how they may change in the future. Together these facts provide a comprehensive picture of the nation’s public schools, including data about students, teachers, funding, achievement, management, and non-academic services.
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Report (PDF format, 3894 KB) * Direct link: http://www.cep-dc.org/cfcontent_file.cfm?Attachment=KoberUsher%5FReport%5FPrimer2012%5F1%2E19%2E12%2EpdfCoal for Christmas
Published: January 10, 2012
Before Christmas, Jack Jennings, CEP’s president, submitted the following blog to the Huffington Post. This blog discusses the disappointing results from urban school districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress that were released in December. He suggests a link between those results and the financial problems being experienced by American schools.