ERS UpdatesERS Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles was the guest speaker Friday morning for a school finance course session offered at the University of Tennessee in conjunction with the District of Knoxville
As Boston Public Schools wraps up its first year of weighted student funding (WSF) and looks to apply lessons learned to improve its funding formula in year two, the Boston City Council invited ERS Director Jonathan Travers to join the discussion.
Education Resource Strategies’ Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles has joined a group of educators, innovators, and business, labor, and non-profit leaders in the New York Education Reform Commission, newly created by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Jonathan Travers participated in a break-out session, “Matching Students’ Needs with Teachers’ Strengths” at the Strategic Data Project’s 2012 Spring Convening, Beyond the Numbers: The Power of Analytic Leaders this past week.
ERS recently welcomed the early arrival of spring with the first ever Spring Celebration on April 6. The event was another great opportunity for staffers with children to gather for fun activities and of course, plenty of refreshments.
A total of ten children filled ERS' largest…
AIR just announced their role as evaluators of the partnership between Boston Public Schools and the National Center on Time & Learning to turnaround two low-performing Boston middle schools. As we’ve written about before, more school time can be a critical lever in school turnaround if used...
A letter from Karen Hawley Miles to the Boston Globe editor regarding BPS' efforts to turnaround 12 schools was recently published.
Get the Latest on the Turnaround Summit Brief #1 and Hold’emThe March News Blast highlights the first Turnaround Summit Brief, an update on school boards that are playing Hold'Em, and more.
Just Published: The First in our Series of Turnaround BriefsWe've just published the first in our series of briefs based on the Sustaining Turnaround at Scale summit in October.
School Boards Play Hold’emA recent school board retreat and ERS’ new game School Budget Hold’em are helping the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) turn a 10% gap in the budget into an opportunity to do more with less. Rather than resign itself to deep and debilitating cuts, the CMSD leadership team is actively…
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