Tag: education economics

February 1, 2018

Kentucky’s education commissioner says proposed state budget cuts will hit school districts hard and could leave the most hard-pressed districts broke. Commissioner Stephen Pruitt told a House budget subcommittee Wednesday that some districts are operating “paycheck to paycheck.” Pruitt later […]

January 4, 2018

Kim Ruben, a senior fellow on tax policy at the Urban Institute, believes “if you look at the economy, all the indicators are that it’s growing, we’re in this sort of boom period.” Of course, with the tax bill set […]

September 5, 2017

There are numerous potential options for school leaders to consider in the face of growing deficits and declining enrollment. Many small universities are reconsidering their mission to expand the number of potential enrollees. Small, selective colleges with sterling reputations may […]

September 1, 2017

An appeals court has unanimously denied a request by Ohio’s largest online charter school seeking to block collection of $60 million in disputed state payments. The ruling Wednesday by a three-judge panel of the Franklin County Court of Appeals leaves […]

June 1, 2017

The departure last week of James W. Runcie, who was chief operating officer of the Federal Student Aid office in the U.S. Education Department, sparked headlines — but one paragraph in his resignation letter flew relatively under the radar. Mr. […]

May 30, 2017

Whether the speaker at your college graduation is the Apple chief executive Tim Cook (M.I.T.) or the actress Eva Longoria (Knox College), the event signals the end of your undergraduate career — and moves you that much closer to having […]

May 17, 2017

School districts are routinely being overcharged by at least $3 billion on ed-tech products, including hardware and software, each year–the equivalent of 54,000 first-year teacher salaries, according to a new study from the Technology for Education Consortium (TEC). The study […]

May 10, 2017

Despite talk of significant education budget cuts on the horizon under President Donald Trump, the agreement reached in Congress for the rest of the federal spending year provides increased funding to the two largest programs for public schools at the […]

April 27, 2017

The idea of schools or districts joining forces to share costs isn’t a new one. Some 35 districts in New York recently entered a contract with Lower Hudson Regional Information Center for a “managed IT” model that would see each […]

March 29, 2017

Schooling policy in the U.S. is in flux. And the future of America’s state economies is at stake. The No Child Left Behind Act that drove much of the overall policy discussion became increasingly dysfunctional and was belatedly replaced by […]

August 29, 2016

The founder and former CEO of an online public school that educates thousands of Pennsylvania students pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal tax fraud, acknowledging he siphoned more than $8 million from The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School through for-profit and nonprofit […]

August 16, 2016

Oregon officials are taking a bold step with unanimous support for dramatically increased budget requests, but it will ultimately come down to how much money is available for the governor to allocate, and if that money is too little, too […]

July 13, 2016

Those who can code may land well-paying jobs. Those who build the tools to teach coding can win even more dollars in the form of venture capital. That’s the case for Codecademy, which has raised $30 million in a Series […]

July 6, 2016

Mounting student debt is not a new topic in the United States, but the government footing the bill is — and for former students of the now obsolete Corinthian Colleges Inc., a total of $171 million in student debt will […]

July 1, 2016

“I feel I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” That’s just one of the revealing reactions to student debt recently published in a mix of statistics, personal stories and tools to help individuals manage their student loans. […]

June 30, 2016

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has signed a $16 billion budget that covers K-12 education, community colleges, and the state’s 15 public universities. The budget gained bipartisan support in the state legislature, but it aroused the skepticism of some who are […]

June 28, 2016

Critics are launching another salvo in a long-simmering debate over the underlying math used to gauge changes in higher education finances over time, arguing a cost-adjustment index used in a closely watched report obscures true trends in revenue. At issue […]

June 22, 2016

Earlier this month, The New York Times ran a story called “Higher Education in Illinois Is Dying” and cited rising pension costs as a major factor in the state’s budget woes. Similarly, in our recent report on pensions in the state […]

June 17, 2016

California universities will see funding increases next year — but only if they enroll more in-state students. With a midnight deadline approaching, California lawmakers approved a $122.5 billion state budget Wednesday. All three of the state’s public higher education systems will […]

June 14, 2016

Sand Hill Road is Silicon Valley’s Yellow Brick Road. Many wistful entrepreneurs long for the venture capital and connections that the street’s residents—including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital—have to offer. Occasionally new firms, like Social Capital, […]