Center for the Study of Education Policy
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The Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) brings the results of research into the everyday world of educators, governmental leaders, and policymakers on the current and emerging policy issues affecting early childhood, K-12, and higher education.
FY20 RFPs released for PFA, PFA-E & PI
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has Requested for Proposals (RFPs) open for the following Early Childhood Block Grant (ECBG) funded programs
Leadership for Equity (LFE) micro-credentials
Through funding from the SEED-funded TEAM Lead project and support from a Stone Foundation grant, the Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP) at Illinois State University has partnered with the Tennessee Department of Education, American Institutes for Research (AIR) and BloomBoard to develop and sustain the Leadership for Equity (LFE) Micro-Credential Cluster. The LFE MC is based on Tennessee’s Leadership for Equity Playbook, funded through support from The Wallace Foundation, and aligns with the Professional Standards for Educational Leadership (PSEL).
National Education Leaders’ Workshop
Erika Hunt, Ph.D., from the Center for the Study of Education Policy (CSEP), Paul Fleming (Department of Education, Tennessee), Jason Gordon (BloomBoard), and Linda Shay (CSEP) presented on Saturday, March 1, 2019, at the National Education Leaders’ Workshop. The presentation was titled "Leadership for Equity Micro-Credential: Grounding Tennessee’s Leadership for Equity Playbook Into a Competency-Based Learning Opportunity".
B-3 Continuity Conference registration extended
The 2019 B-3 Continuity Conference has extended registration until April 10. Gather your community partners as there is still time to register!
B-3 Continuity Conference – Key Note & Administrators Academy
Have you registered yet for the 2019 B-3 Continuity Conference? Make sure you send the invitation out to your community partners and get registered by March 22, 2019! The Birth-to-Third Grade (B-3) Continuity Conference is scheduled for June 12-13, 2019, at the Double Tree Hotel in Bloomington, IL. The conference website has all the details you […]All Center News
A Thought About Higher Education...
A new study makes a serious effort to provide a balanced non-partisan analysis of how decisions about budget reductions for public higher education affect student costs. It avoids some of the problems of more simplistic analyses and lays groundwork for further study of this issue.
What’s behind increased student college costs? One big reason...
In 2001, annual cost per student for public college tuition degree was $13,167 (state education contribution plus tuition). In 2016, cost was $13,259 (+$92 adjusting for inflation). State paid more than 70% of cost in 2001, but only 50% of cost in 2016 (SHEF report). Public colleges are less public today.