Targeted Fiscal Resources

Category : Creating and Sustaining the Conditions

Level : System

To what extent are resources reallocated and/or targeted to support local more and better learning time ecosystems? What necessary resources do stakeholders provide to support expanded learning time?

Adequate education funding is critical to any reform- particularly reforms that aim to improve the educational opportunities offered to students in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. Thus, a key part of understanding how an ecosystem is creating and sustaining more and better learning time is measuring whether a school, district, or state is working to increase education funding through legislative initiatives and seeking additional funds through external sources (e.g., foundations).

• Public funds are reallocated, targeted, or increased to support the provision of more and better learning time, in particular to schools serving neighborhoods of concentrated poverty.
• Effective and sustainable funding from external sources, including foundations, is in place.
• District and/or funder initiatives that may be in conflict with the implementation of expanded learning time have been identified and are being addressed.