Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
July 25, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdA state audit of New College of Florida found that officials overpaid employees and vendors and failed to collect more than $160,000 in outstanding student balances, The Tampa Bay Times reported. The audit is largely focused on financial missteps between […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
July 16, 2024
Via: Ed SurgeIt’s no secret that high school students are looking at the prospect of college more skeptically, and a large part of their hesitation comes from worry about taking on thousands of dollars in student loans. It’s only natural that they would experience sticker […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
July 9, 2024
Via: Inside Higher Edespite doom-and-gloom news about lean state budgets and dwindling federal pandemic-relief funds, some community colleges have successfully staved off cuts this budget cycle, to the great relief of campus leaders and advocates. They say these spells of good fortune show growing […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
June 25, 2024
Via: Higher Ed DiveS&P analysts view the covenant breaches as a symptom of pressure on colleges, many of them smaller and private. In their report, they point to the impact of several tough years on the higher education sector. “At the start of […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
June 24, 2024
Via: EdSourceTrue to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s promise, the 2024-25 budget compromise that the Legislature announced Saturday and will pass this week will spare TK-12 and community colleges from cuts that other state operations will bear. TK-12 funding will be flat and […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
June 3, 2024
Via: eSchool NewsThis is a tough summer of budget cuts, forcing many districts to reduce staff and cut back on purchases. For school and district technology leaders, the end of the school year also means the end of billions of dollars of […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 20, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdDemocrats are calling on Senate appropriators to boost funding for the Pell Grant program for fiscal year 2025. In a letter sent Monday, provided first to Inside Higher Ed, a group of senators urged the Labor, Health and Human Services […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 14, 2024
Via: Education NextAmericans with more education vote at higher rates. In the 2020 presidential election, 77 percent of eligible voters who had attended or graduated from college and 90 percent with post-graduate studies cast a ballot compared to 54 percent of voters […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 13, 2024
Via: K-12 DiveThe average main instructional school building in the U.S. is about 49 years old, with 38% built prior to 1970, according to a survey by the National Center for Education Statistics. While the White House Summit primarily focused on energy […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics, Educational Stages, Higher Education
May 8, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdState higher ed funding rose by 3.7 percent beyond inflation in fiscal year 2023, according to the latest State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report. It’s the second time since 2008 that state higher ed funding surpassed pre-recession levels; the first […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 7, 2024
Via: Higher Ed DiveWhile inflation has slowed from historic levels, costs for universities remain high and a source of financial pressure, especially when coupled with enrollment declines. Common Fund Institute’s latest Higher Education Price Index forecasts the overall inflation rate on colleges’ costs […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
May 1, 2024
Via: Higher Ed DiveThe Art Institutes — which at one time had more than 50 locations — closed its eight remaining colleges last fall following several troubled years.. The first Art Institute was founded in Pittsburgh in 1921 and was acquired by Education […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
April 17, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdA week after previewing its plans to provide debt relief for 26 million Americans, the Biden administration is taking the next step this week to making it a reality. Today, the Education Department published the proposed regulations that will enable […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
April 12, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdPresident Biden’s new plan to forgive some or all student loans for 26 million Americans would cost about $84 billion over 10 years, according to economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organization at the Wharton School […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
April 3, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdFrom protecting reefs and fighting climate change to purchasing a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometer, projects for colleges and universities funded in the latest federal budget run a wide gamut. Colleges and universities are planning to put more than $1.3 billion […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
March 25, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdCongress voted late last week to approve a 2024 fiscal year budget for agencies covered by six of its 12 annual appropriations bills, belatedly completing its work nearly halfway into the fiscal year. Members of Congress had approved legislation covering […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
March 20, 2024
Via: eSchool NewsThe final chapters of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding are drawing near. The imminent end of ESSER funding has pushed school districts to a critical juncture, compelling them to confront budget deficits for the upcoming 2024-2025 school […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
March 11, 2024
Via: K-12 DiveThe Biden administration is proposing a 3.9% increase over fiscal 2023 for the U.S. Department of Education, for a total of $82 billion in discretionary funding for early learning, K-12 and higher education in its fiscal year 2025 budget released […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
February 27, 2024
Via: K-12 DiveAccording to the NAEYC analysis of survey responses from 10,128 early childhood educators nationwide, 55% of all respondents said they knew of at least one child care program closing in their community in the past six months. Only 30% were […]
Economics&Strategies, Education Economics
February 15, 2024
Via: Inside Higher EdEndowment returns for fiscal year 2023 are up 7.7 percent according to the latest study by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund. That marks a reversal of fortunes after returns fell by 8 percent in […]