School Funding Matters

A comparison of weighted student funding as described in a March 2008 Fordham Foundation report with the Ohio Evidence-Based Model.

Lawrence O. Picus and Allan Odden, creators of the evidence-based school funding model, compare Ohio's proposed education plan with their recommendations.

Research into effective education practices compiled by Allan Odden and Lawrence Picus, developers of the evidence-based model for school funding.

This chart outlines the education practices that would be supported by the Ohio Evidence-Based Model proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland.

An excerpt from Gov. Ted Strickland's executive budget for fiscal years 2010 and 2011 outlining changes to school funding.

The Importance of Costing out a Quality Education in Ohio: Why Evidence-based Should be Ohio’s Choice As Ohio again embarks on fixing its school funding system, it is clear that a costing-out model must be a central part of the effort to satisfy the mandates of the DeRolph rulings and public perception. The question then becomes which ...

Two of the leading school funding experts in the nation offer ideas on how Ohio could use an evidence-based approach to determine how much funding is needed.