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Funding For Performance And Equity: Student Success In English Further Education Colleges, Ozan Jaquette
Funding For Performance And Equity: Student Success In English Further Education Colleges, Ozan Jaquette
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The impact of performance funding on community college student outcomes is a contested issue. Performance funding policies in most U.S. states involve too small a proportion of funding to change college behavior. English further education colleges are similar to U.S. community colleges. 1992 policy reforms in England centralized policy control, and implemented a per-pupil funding formula; 10% of all funding is based on student success but other components of the funding formula pay colleges more money for enrolling disadvantaged students. This research uses five years of student level data to test the impact of these policies. Overall student success rates …