Education

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K-12 Funding Analysis by District: Challenges of Recent Inflation Limiting Investments From the Student Opportunity Act

Colin Jones , Roger Hatch June 18, 2024 Budget Resources Education Kids Reports

Presentation: K-12 Funding Update for the Legislative Gateway Caucus

Colin Jones April 8, 2024 Budget Resources Education Presentation

Presentation: Budget Update – Funding for Brockton Public Schools

Colin Jones March 6, 2024 Budget Resources Education Presentation

ALL EDUCATION REPORTS

Building an Education System that Works for Everyone: Funding Reforms to Help All Our Children Thrive

Noah Berger, Roger Hatch , Colin Jones July 18, 2018 Education Kids

Educated and Encumbered: Student Debt Rising with Higher Education Funding Falling in Massachusetts

Jeremy Thompson March 1, 2018 Education

Organized as a series of charts, this paper details major trends since Fiscal Year 2001 in state support for our public colleges and universities in Massachusetts, and how those changes have led to sharply increasing costs for students and families, which they pay for with increasing amounts of debt. On several measures we compare Massachusetts to other states.

Funding Improvements for Schools, Roads, and Public Transit with Tax Reforms that Improve Fairness

MassBudget Staff January 18, 2018 Education Taxes Transportation

A ballot question has been proposed that would support investments in education and transportation with revenue from an additional 4% tax on income over a million dollars a year. This factsheet examines this proposal and how it relates to longer term economic and policy trends in Massachusetts.