Advanced Search Close Search
Missouri

Missouri education board wary of $300 million school funding increase

  • Annelise Hanshaw

Missouri education officials are preparing to ask lawmakers for roughly $300 million more for public schools next year, setting up a potentially difficult budget fight as the state faces a projected revenue shortfall. The numbers are yet to be finalized, but the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s preliminary report shows that recent changes to […]

States Newsroom

Higher education commission looks to revive college performance funding

  • Mackenzi Klemann

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education is seeking to restore outcomes-based performance funding for the state’s public colleges and universities in the next biennial budget. The formula rewards additional funding to colleges and universities for positive outcomes like on-time degree completion and graduate retention. The commission approved a new performance formula Thursday prioritizing on-time or […]