Following interviews with postsecondary leaders from four states, this Policy Brief provides an overview of policy mechanisms to fund postsecondary education and highlights perspectives of postsecondary leaders on how equity and funding intersect in policy and practice.
August 29, 2022
Policy Report
Postsecondary
MI, OR, TX, UT
Finance
A state superintendent requested examples of how states have defined equity in code or rule. Our response includes legislation enacted since 2019 that have both explicitly focused on equity and…
March 29, 2021
State Information Request
K-12, Postsecondary
DE, IL, LA, MA, WA
Governance
In the year since the pandemic brought the country to a halt, state policymakers faced challenges transitioning to a remote work and schooling environment and began to lay the groundwork…
K-12, Postsecondary
IL, MN, TN
Standards & Curriculum, Students & Families, Transitions
As Education Commission of the States set out to catalog and analyze the various postsecondary funding models in place across the country, we specifically sought out information about how adopted…
August 17, 2020
Blog Post
Finance
This special report encourages increased intentionality of policy assessment and development through exploring equity-minded questions across four key state policy levers: teaching and leading, learning and transitioning, measuring and improving,…
June 14, 2017
Policy Report
Early Education (P-3), High School, K-12, Postsecondary
Unassigned
Accountability, Arts, Assessment, Attendance, ESSA, Finance, Safety, STEM/STEAM, Students & Families, Teachers & Leaders, Transitions