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The Readiness Index — 2026 Baseline

31 higher-education institutions across 9 states, coded for whether their education units offer anything built for the portable-funding sector. Includes the coding scheme, the four competing explanations, and the nine research gaps.

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FieldWhat it holds
nameInstitution, as it names itself
stateUS state
tierCoded category — Tier 1 built for the sector, Tier 2 names it, Tier 3 incidental, Tier 0 nothing found
checkedThe date a human read the live institutional page. Not a publication date.
evidenceWhat was found and what it means, including caveats
sourceLive URL for the claim
Publishing shortly

The Portable-Funding Atlas — 175 countries, four coded to WMFC standard — and its companion brief International Precedents are finished and in the publishing queue. Both will appear here with the same CSV and JSON treatment.

How to cite

Cite the edition and the date you accessed it — the datasets are living documents and we date every row for exactly this reason.

When Money Follows the Child. The WMFC Readiness Index, 2026 Baseline. whenmoneyfollowsthechild.org. Accessed [date].

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A note on the raw files

The JSON link above opens the machine-readable file directly — useful if you're pulling it into code, dense if you're reading. The CSV button gives you a spreadsheet instead, and the Readiness Index page gives you the same data laid out for humans.