Budget shortfalls are forcing states to come up with novel solutions for the wide disparities between poor and affluent school districts. The latest reminder was a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in May that ordered the Legislature to increase spending for only the 31 poorest urban districts ("Court Orders New Jersey to Increase Aid to Schools," The New York Times, May 24). Not surprisingly, the decision did not please the other districts in the state.
In light of the problem in New Jersey and in other states as well, perhaps it's time to consider what is known as weighted student funding. The Summer 2011 issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management contains a study by Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske titled "Weighted Student Funding in the Netherlands: A Model for the U.S.?" For the past quarter of a century, the Netherlands has been using a version of WSF for all its elementary schools serving children from ages 4 to 12.
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Alternative to Traditional School Funding - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week - 0 views
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Alternative funding for traditional schools
In Austria, virtual library contained in public QR code stickers | Springwise - 0 views
Downtown L.A. Has Arrived, Believe It or Not « Zócalo Public Square - 0 views
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So how can downtown activate spaces like the plaza-and Grand Park? ... park designers knew they'd have to rely on programming to get people in for the first time
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Maker Cities - 1 views
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New game project on maker movement by Institute of the Future
Pop_up Planning: New Methods for Transforming the Public Process - 0 views
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I live just a few miles from where the Pop-UP MANGo happened. I can tell you that while the community-participation aspect of this kind of "planning" is terrrific, it undermines overall city planning in terms of space use, traffic mitigation, and access. What's the proper balance?
A look at floating cities - 0 views
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The text of this blog is junk, but the pictures are food for thought.
2013 Great Places in America - 0 views
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great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.
Swapping Parking for Public Space on Irving: Merchants May Have Warmed Up - 0 views
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owners of businesses that front the small chunk of parking spaces that would be replaced with the bulb-outs might gain as their street becomes more attractive
The Problem With Defining 'Downtown' - The Atlantic Cities - 0 views
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Census Bureau defines "downtown," for lack of a better universal definition, as everything within a 2-mile radius of the local city hall.
The Next Big Thing: "Sit-able Cities" - 1 views
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Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.
You Are Here - 1 views
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Three maps depicting the "walkingsheds" of cafes in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. An interesting look at the possible areas of influence of specific Third Spaces.
Attractions Management - Abandoned train tunnels below London 'to be transformed' into leisure sites... - 0 views
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Gee, LA is still trying to get much of its underground transportation built, while London is looking to re-purpose old, unused tunnels. Among the possible uses imagined for these spaces is a National Fire Brigade Museum.
S.F.'s uncommon areas: Plazas created from scraps of urban land - 1 views
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I love this quote with "city" replaced by "museum": Yet the aspirations of a [museum] can also be measured in smaller scraps of land - the remnant spaces that often are blighted or ignored, but with imaginative design and care have the potential to be destinations.
Hidden costs of sprawl will cripple cities - 0 views
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"Why don't cities count the long-term costs of suburbia?" asks author of report on sprawl.
Putting the Park in Parking - 0 views
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A new kind of third space. What do parklets (microparks) have in common with museum pop-ups?
Places in the Making: MIT Report Highlights the 'Virtuous Cycle of Placemaking' - 0 views
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The paper, Places in the Making, casts aside the idea of the monolithic expert, and argues clearly and cohesively for the importance of Placemaking as a vital part of community-building, rather than a fuzzy "extra."
How Smart Cities Must Plan for Electric Cars - 0 views
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Every electric vehicle will need to have access to a charging station within its driving range. Charging stations will have to be distributed differently from gas stations.
Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state : NPR - 0 views
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"We already are seeing 'border war' with individual states passing major legislation that differs considerably from that in other places," says Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and William Gale, a Brookings senior fellow in economic studies,
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When and if the issue turns to violent confrontations between local citizens and federal officers, or between contentious groups of citizens, the clash might well take place far closer to home
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America has an extraordinary number of guns and private militias," they write. How many? They cite the National Shooting Sports Foundation's estimate of 434 million firearms in civilian possession in the U.S. right now. That would be 1.3 guns per person.
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