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Low-Stakes Completion-Based Funding: A New Approach to Financing Competency-Based Education

October 15, 2018

FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE

While many states do not view online charter schools as an area for innovation within existing charter school regulations, New Hampshire has leapt into uncharted state policy and experimented with new pathways towards increasing student success by developing a unique funding system called “low-stakes completion-based funding”. This report looks to explore this model and inform state and school leaders of new possibilities for financing student learning in their virtual school sectors.

New Hampshire has developed a unique approach to performance-based budgeting—called completion-based funding (CBF) —that seeks to improve student outcomes by funding schools when students complete assignments rather than when they enroll in or attend classes.

#DisruptionDialogue happening in Martha’s Vineyard on August 4!
“The Nellie Mae Education Foundation really seeks to make visible the invisible. We are all in service of a high quality education for every child, hard stop. There are aspects of who is least well served that often we’re not talking about, that are often invisible to folks for whom the system has served really…
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The Wisdom in Transitions: A Time of Reflection in Gratitude
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