When Money Follows the Child

Who trains the teachers when the money moves?

Institution by institution, state by state: has anyone built the educator workforce that portable funding needs? Florida and Michigan are coded in full.

The questionWhen K–12 funding follows the student, how do colleges and universities respond? And who is leading?
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coded rows across 9 states

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built for the sector, almost all by running or authorizing schools

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preparation program built for the sector: Central Michigan's charter leadership M.A.

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serve the unlicensed slice: microschools, co-ops, ESA vendors

Future teachers at the Washington Normal School, 1899.
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Future teachers at the Washington Normal School, 1899.

Now1 preparation program in the Index is built for the new sector. 0 serve microschools, co-ops or ESA vendors.

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Florida and Michigan, side by side

The two states coded in full. One dot per institution, colored by what it has built. Hover or tap a dot.

Where institutions engage, they authorize schools. They do not build programs.

Florida's Tier 1 rows are all charter sponsors. Michigan's eight university authorizers hold well over 200 schools between them, some since 1994. Across all of them: one preparation program.

Holding schools did not produce programs.

Proximity, subsidy and access were each present in Michigan without a single new course.

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Can a student teacher work in a private school?

We read the published clinical-placement policy of ten Florida preparation programs.

Tap a program for its policy document.

3 of 10 explicitly allow a private-school placement. Most never mention the option.

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What has actually been read

Coverage is uneven. Read any state total against how deeply that state was scanned.

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The coded scan

Every row with its evidence, source and the date a person read it. Tap a row.

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Why so little? Four explanations

The evidence does not yet separate them. Tap one for the current reading.

The limit, first. Cases were found by searching for engagement, which biases every explanation here. Comparison-state nulls are weak and should not be cited. "Nothing found" is never "nothing there." Method