Education Finance: Birth to 12th Grade

HSPC's work in Education Finance: Birth to 12th Grade includes two lines of analysis:

Financing Quality Education from Birth to Age 5

We have developed and applied a model that helps state policy makers explore options for making high-quality Early Care and Education available to all children from birth to 5 years of age.

Financing Quality Education from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade

We are working with a multidisciplinary team - the School Finance Redesign Project - to design a new framework for financing public education. HSPC's role in the project is to apply its policy cost modeling analysis, developed successfully for early education, to estimating the costs of K-12 finance systems that support improved student performance. In this analysis, we simulate the effects of various policy decisions, translating knowledge about children's learning directly into cost estimates. These cost estimates vary depending on the package of instructional, non-instructional, and organizational policies selected. We also analyze the degree to which alternative funding strategies target funds to disadvantaged students and communities.