Next Education Workforce Evaluation Study

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The Overdeck Family Foundation supports further research into the effectiveness of strategic school staffing models.

Official grant name

Next Education Workforce Evaluation Study

Award amount

$600000

Principal investigator

Mary Laski

Direct sponsor

Overdeck Family Foundation

Award start date

07/01/2024

Award end date

06/30/2026

The challenge

Schools and districts nationwide are adopting strategic school staffing models, and there is a need for further study and research into the effectiveness of such models.


The approach

This grant supports further study and research into the effectiveness of strategic school staffing models. It will focus on Next Education Workforce team-based
staffing models and identify specific programmatic mechanisms and school-level characteristics that are associated with improved outcomes for educators and students.

The project is led by Mary Laski, a principal at MLFTC's Center on Reinventing Public Education.