School Budget Hold’em:ERS, November 3rd, 2011
Education funding decisions should never be left to chance. School Budget Hold ‘em is more than a game…it’s an interactive exploration of the thoughtful trade-offs school administrators have to make in these challenging budget times.
School Design:ERS, October 2010
See how to align your resources with strategic school designs across your district.
School Funding Systems:ERS, September 2010
Use existing resources more effectively by shifting spending, targeting cuts, and laying the groundwork for long-term change.
The Strategic School: by Karen Hawley Miles and Stephen Frank
Corwin Press 2008
Learn how schools can best use the resources they already have.
VUE: Voices in Urban Education:
This issue of VUE includes an article by ERS’ Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles and Manager Naomi Calvo on how “strategic decentralization” and weighted student funding can transform school districts, empower principals, and increase student achievement.
Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.
The purpose of the summit was to provide a forum for districts to share ideas on school funding, discuss what is and isn’t working, and spark new approaches.
by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008
This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs.
In March, 2010, ERS brought together a group of urban education leaders for a two-day summit to explore innovative approaches for allocating student funds based on student need. These summaries came from posters used for an opening gallery walk to the summit. You will find information about each districts size,…
The results of a Resource Use Analysis conducted by ERS for the School District of Philadelphia between 2007 and 2009.
ERS, April 2010
ERS has partnered with a number of districts on implementing weighted student funding, which is also known as fair student funding or student-based budgeting. This presentation serves as an introduction to this budgeting process.
by Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
This article provides insight into how school systems nationwide are seeking to place more accountability for student performance with educators at the school level.
by Karen Hawley Miles
Educational Leadership, September 2001
The focus on creating accountable standards-based schools is pushing districts and schools to more clearly define their goals and priorities for student learning. This analysis focuses on realigning spending and staffing in five ways by defining priorities for student performance.
by Karen Hawley Miles
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2006
This manifesto outlines the inequities and inefficiencies of the current school finance system and proposes using a weighted student funding system in which dollars follow individual students, vary according to their needs, and allow flexibility at the school level with results-oriented accountability.
by Karen Hawley Miles
New American Schools
This article compares the different levels of resources between schools within districts and how to change the method for allocating resources to a student-based approach. Published in Peabody Journal of Education, Winter, 2005.
by Karen Hawley Miles, Kathleen Ware, and Marguerite Roza
Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
Traces the Cincinnati Public School district process of moving to a system of student-based budgeting: funding children rather than staff members and weighting the funding according to the schools’ and student’s needs.
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