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Evaluation of Outcomes Based Contracting (OBC): Final Report
Format: PDF Pages: 150 Publisher: WestEd Districts investing in tutoring and educational technology often struggle to know whether their spending actually improves student outcomes. Outcomes Based Contracting (OBC) offers one response, tying provider payments to defined results rather than services delivered. But the approach is still new and its implementation is not well understood.
Understanding the At-Risk Indicator: Nevada’s Pupil-Centered Funding Plan
Format: PDF Pages: 46 Publisher: WestEd Nevada’s Pupil-Centered Funding Plan (PCFP) is the first in the nation to use a machine learning-based at-risk indicator (the GRAD score) to allocate funding based on students’ likelihood of not graduating. The indicator closely aligns with traditional measures of need—such as identifying students with IEPs, English Learners, and foster youth—but provides a more precise, targeted approach.
The Black River by Sean Tanner
I uncrossed my legs and adjusted my knob a bit, which was by now straining against my jeans. I was sprawled on the floor of my tent like an overfed dog, my head propped up by the pillow of my rucksack. I had a book in one hand and beer in the other. I had been pretending to read the same page for the last fifteen minutes because there were two girls on the plot across from ours fumbling with the poles and pegs for their own tent.
Violence
Last night I told Bridget I’d always fancied her. I turn over and press my face into the pillow. Why did I do that? Why God? Tell me why I did that? I no longer wish to think about last night. To escape these memories, I open my eyes. There is pain, a ringing in the ears, a taste of ass in the mouth. I open the curtains and blink out at the day. I feel odd like I’ve just been born. More memories come as I sit on the edge of my bed. Horrible fucking memories about the things I have said and done.
Mams Being Mams - The Forge
The worst part about the whole debacle was having to endure the barrage of well-meaning enquiry from friends and family in the aftermath. The earnest concern, the tender worry, the open faced pity, the blatant love and support– it was unrelenting. These gentle interrogations were enough to send a fella over the edge. I sat at the kitchen table warming my hands around a mug of tea.
Loosening The Reins: Evidence and Considerations for Lifting Restrictions on Resources for Schools
Format: PDF Pages: 9 Publisher: WestEd As the nation faces an economic recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, states struggle to align spending for public education and other services with contracted revenues resulting from widespread sector shutdown. States face difficult choices regarding spending in the context of an economic recession. One option that many are likely to consider is lifting restrictions on how school districts can use allocated funding.
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