Teacher Salary Gaps
A study documenting significant teacher salary gaps by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington has bolstered a new proposal in Congress regarding how the No Child Left Behind Act distributes money to school districts.
Kevin Carey, manager of the nonpartisan think tank Education Sector, mentioned this study on September 10 during his Congressional testimony. Two days later CRPE Director Paul T. Hill was quoted about the study's effect on Capitol Hill in an article in Education Week, a nonprofit trade paper based in Washington, D.C. (Note: Education Week's website requires free registration to view articles.)
Charter Schools
Hill was also recently quoted in a different Education Week article about how to compare the academic merits of a charter school with regular public schools.
Teacher Certification and Pay Reform
CRPE Research Associate Professor Dan Goldhaber was also quoted recently about required teacher certification and pay reform in an August article in Education Week, a blog entry on Huffington Post, and an online article in The American, a magazine project by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
District Funding of Individual Schools
CRPE researchers Marguerita Roza, Kacey Guin, Betheny Gross, and Scott Deburgomaster also had an article published in the most recent edition of Education Next discussing a research project on the discrepancies in funding among Texas public school districts. Education Next is a publication of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.