The Honorable Virginia Foxx Chairwoman House Committee on Education and the Workforce Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Bobby Scott Ranking Member House Committee on Education and the Workforce Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairwoman Foxx, Ranking Member Scott, and Members of the Committee on Education and the Workforce: We appreciate…
Most performance- or outcomes-based funding (POBF) models seek to address accountability and not equity, so they do not always account for the additional resources that minority-serving institutions (MSIs) require to serve their students. We found this to be the case in Texas and Washington, two states that have…
Performance- or outcomes-based funding is intended to drive more equitable opportunities and outcomes in higher education. But in our research, we’ve found the opposite. Instead of diverting more money to under-resourced colleges and universities, these institutions tend to get less in states with POBF policies — and the…
More than 30 states now have adopted or are in the process of adopting a formula that divvies out funding to public colleges and universities based on their outcomes for students. Called performance- or outcomes-based funding (POBF), these policies are inconsistent in their design, and in many cases, perpetuate…
The Honorable Roy Blunt Chairman Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Patty Murray Ranking Member Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman Blunt and Ranking Member Murray: The…
The Honorable Mitch McConnell Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Minority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Paul Ryan Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader U.S. House of Representatives Washington…
John B. King Jr., Ed Trust President and CEO and former U.S. Secretary of Education, teamed up with fellow former secretary of education under the Obama administration, Arne Duncan, now managing partner for The Emerson Collective, on an opinion piece for The Hill. The piece examines the Trump administration…
WASHINGTON — Today, John B. King Jr., president and CEO of The Education Trust, issued this statement on the announcement that the U.S. Department of Education intends to delay the implementation of gainful employment regulations: “Today's delay of parts of Gainful Employment will give unscrupulous career college programs…
