Right now, Amber, Suzannah and I are at the National Press Club for the University of Washington School Finance Redesign Project's conclusionary panel. The report being released is the product of five years of work. The basic premise: schools will never provide quality education if the funding system is broken. Jacob Adams, the panel moderator, says the question to ask is: How can we translate resources into results?
It's going to start with understanding that the school system today is not structured to support ambitious learning goals and then reform the complicated and opaque finance system operations.
To do this, we must answer the following questions:
-How can we effectively deliver, manage and account for dollars?
-What can we do right now?
-How can the policy community support what's going on in schools?
-How can we learn more about school finance to continue matching dollars to increased student learning.
Sounds like these questions will be answered. Stay tuned...
