Conditions for Student Success: The Cycle of Continuous Instructional Improvement
March 2007 Download the PDF
How can school finance better support student performance? This is the question in front of the National Working Group on Funding Student Success, a group convened by the School Finance Redesign Project at the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education. The group's purpose is to craft a vision of performance-oriented school finance and what it takes to get there.
This paper, written by working group member Joanne Weiss of NewSchools Venture Fund, explores the conditions necessary to remake education as a performance-driven system. It lays out the practices that need to be in place, the solutions and tools that need to be built to make those practices scalable, and the deployment of resources (both financial and human capital) necessary to enable continuous instructional improvement and academic gains for all students.
