Overcoming Barriers to Higher Education with Campaign Free Aid
Affordability remains a significant barrier to higher education, with access to financial aid playing a crucial role in students’ decisions to pursue postsecondary credentials. To help students navigate this hurdle, the Foundation for Tacoma Students launched Campaign Free Aid (CFA) in 2022, a multi-district strategic initiative focused on ensuring students receive the information and support […]
Washington Needs a Strategy for Tutoring
Measures of academic achievement for Washington students are improving overall from an extreme low point coming out of pandemic school disruptions. But there is still a lot of work to do. Learning loss is a lingering problem everywhere – this is not a unique challenge in Washington – and there is a role for state […]
The Role of Peer Mentoring in College Achievement
College can be tough, especially for first-year students. Research from the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition shows that students who participate in peer mentoring programs are 10% more likely to graduate than those who don’t. Similarly, students supported by the College Access: Research & Action (CARA) peer-to-peer persistence model […]
Washington’s Capital Gains Tax is Good
In 2021 the state legislature enacted a new tax on capital gains. The revenue from the tax is restricted and can only be used for child care, early learning and education purposes. However, on every Washington ballot this November there will be a question to voters asking if we want to repeal the capital gains […]
College is Worth it
Student loan forgiveness is a high profile Federal policy issue at the moment. Without getting into the tradeoffs involved in that specific policy, something that worries me about its prominence is that it could be feeding a narrative that “college isn’t worth it.” This post will dig into recent research that shows that college is […]
Altering The Paradigm For A Multi-Year FAFSA Plan
As we delve into the session, FFTS is closely monitoring a range of critical education policy issues. Our commitment is to provide continual analysis and commentary on the developments each week, advocating for policies that align with our policy platform.
College Or Career? Why Not Both? The Case For A College And Career Readiness Curriculum For High Schools
As we delve into the session, FFTS is closely monitoring a range of critical education policy issues. Our commitment is to provide continual analysis and commentary on the developments each week, advocating for policies that align with our policy platform.
COVID-19 and the Education Policy Learning Opportunity
Maybe the biggest challenge with education policy is that the field is littered with all sorts of great ideas that work at a small-ish scale, but then aren’t as effective when we try to take them to a wide scale. It just shows that getting education policy right is difficult and that the work is […]
Redefining State Report Cards To Better Reflect Student Success Indicators
As we delve into the session, FFTS is closely monitoring a range of critical education policy issues. Our commitment is to provide continual analysis and commentary on the developments each week, advocating for policies that align with our policy platform.
Washington’s Roadmap To A Statewide College Promise Program
As we delve into the session, FFTS is closely monitoring a range of critical education policy issues. Our commitment is to provide continual analysis and commentary on the developments each week, advocating for policies that align with our policy platform.