Outcomes-Based Higher Ed Funding Plans Move Forward
Last legislative session, efforts to alter the state's funding model for public higher education by tying a portion of it to student success rather than student enrollment stalled. But House Bill 9, authored by state Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, did pass, and it required that new plans for outcomes-based funding be submitted for consideration in the upcoming session.
Advisory committees made up of college and university administrators have been collaborating on an outcomes-based funding system that can generate enough support to get through the legislative process in 2013. Today, those advisory committees are presenting their plans to the Texas ...
Comments (6)
Jim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
good. teachers need to compete
Ray Grasshoff via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That's quite a set of metrics.
T D
Giving colleges a financial disincentive to fail students---What could possibly go wrong?
Paula Renfro
Teaching is not a business in which workers need to compete. Teachers need to work together to help students. Trying to apply a business model is inappropriate.
gypsy314 ne
I say we could save a lot of tax payers money by cutting funding to illegal aliens and cutting over head personal all we need is teachers and small staff to run every school. Let the parents over see the schools needs. Like what is the hold up on tablets replacing the text book?? A lot of money to save there alone. We need school vouchers NOW.
Anyone BUT Obama and democrats!
russ huebel
Give everyone a degree and let the employers sort them out.