A Spectrum of Governance and Funding Structures

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September 9, 2024

By: KnowledgeWorks

Uncover various governance and finance structures that are successfully supporting the advancement of personalized, competency-based learning.

For state education leaders, a key component of scaling and spreading personalized, competency-based learning is developing the funding and governance structures needed to sustainably support the work. By exploring a variety of approaches – from centralized to decentralized – state education leaders can gain insights into governance and finance structures that are actively supporting personalized, competency-based learning.

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