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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"education foundations"”.
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California Education Foundations: A Mixed Methods Study
Limited and unstable funding for education has inspired supporters of schools to seek private funds to help pay for public education. Private funds generated at the local level could also, conceivably, reinstate at least a modicum of local control of public schools. Local control, in California at …
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An Exploratory Study of Board Governance Structures and Practices of Education Foundations or Funds
Education foundations or funds (EFs) are nonprofit organizations created to support local public school systems. They solicit funds from individuals and businesses and then distribute those funds for programs that benefit a particular public school system. Although researchers have not measured the …
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An analysis of local education foundations as alternative revenue streams for public school districts
… that many school districts explore is a local education foundation. Local education foundations are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that are affiliated with their local public school district. This study seeks to understand the problem that local school district leaders face when dealing with …
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A Case Study of Selected Preservice Teachers Regarding the Origins of Their Perspectives on the Commonplaces of Education and the Impact of Foundations Studies on Those Perspectives
<p>Problem. Many educational foundations scholars claim that teacher education programs focus on the how of instruction (student teaching and methods courses) instead of the why of education (foundations studies), and that preservice teachers’ pre-college perspectives about education are not …
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Public School Foundations' Support of K-12 Public School Divisions in Virginia
… and personnel. Insufficient funding for public education concerns many stakeholders. Virginia is one of many states in which localities have established public school foundations as a means to obtain private funds to support a variety of purposes in their public school divisions. Research was …