Utah USBE resource allocation review process for schools eligible for comprehensive improvement support

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Description

The Utah State Board of Education, with WestEd's Region 15 Comprehensive Center, designed an RAR process beginning in March 2020 to help schools eligible for comprehensive improvement support. By "leveraging existing LEA and school-level data as well as required planning and reporting processes," USBE sought to support leaders in identifying and implementing strategies for equitable resource allocation, communicate scalable promising practices, align existing planning and reporting requirements, and build state capacity to connect identified needs, evidence-based strategies, and equitable resource allocation methods. The process was guided by principles of being comprehensive, collaborative, and systemic; minimizing burden on local agencies; and communicating the why for equity.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• The process leverages existing LEA and school-level data and required planning and reporting processes rather than creating new ones.

Constraints

• The process was designed for schools eligible for comprehensive improvement support under ESSA, though the report recommends designing it so all LEAs and schools can participate regardless of improvement status.

Target Learners

• LEA and school leaders in Utah
• state education agency staff

Learning Goals

• identifying and addressing resource inequities to support school improvement

Claims

• Utah's state education agency successfully piloted and tested its ESSA resource allocation review process with LEAs and schools in spring 2023. [+W]

Related Designs

• Bring together a cross-department state team to design and deliver a resource allocation review.
• Statewide SELPA administrator survey and multi-LEA SELPA allocation plan review

Examples

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Key Sources

• Taylor, T., & Bowman, A. (2024). Design and Implementation of the ESSA Resource Allocation Review: Lessons Learned in Utah. Region 15 Comprehensive Center, WestEd. https://web.stanford.edu/~mshanks/MichaelShanks/files/509554.pdf

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title	Utah USBE resource allocation review process for schools eligible for comprehensive improvement support
description	The Utah State Board of Education, with WestEd's Region 15 Comprehensive Center, designed an RAR process beginning in March 2020 to help schools eligible for comprehensive improvement support.
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