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Report
8.6.2015
School Finance, Governance

Who Should Be in Charge When School Districts Go into the Red?

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald, Alyssa Schwenk

School districts across the land are contending with rising education costs and constrained revenues. Yet state policies for assisting school districts in financial trouble are uneven and complex. Interventions are often haphazard, occur arbitrarily, and routinely place politics over sound economics.

Report
3.17.2015
Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Developing School Leaders: What the U.S. Can Learn from England's Model

Mark Toner

The myriad challenges facing school principals in the United States have been well documented, including limited opportunities for distributed leadership, inadequate training, and a lackluster pipeline for new leaders. Recently, the Fordham Institute teamed up with the London-based Education Foundation to seek a better understanding of England’s recent efforts to revamp school leadership.