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Introduction
Choose Your Scenario
Model District Cost Drivers



Elementary Schools
Class Size and Planning Time
Small Group Support
Individual Tutoring
Staffing Strategies



Secondary Schools
Class Size and Scheduling
Staffing Strategies



Professional Development
School-based PD
Individual Careers/Other PD



Compensation and Time
Teacher Compensation
Instructional Time



Reports and Results
Budget Summary
Per Pupil Costs

ERS has found that the strongest high level drivers of cost allocation in large urban districts are:
  • Student enrollment
  • The size and type of community in which the district is located
  • The special education population, and
  • Overall per pupil spending.
The choices below allow you to choose the district scenario that will serve as a "base case" for your resource modeling and redesign. Select your preferred value for the district location, district enrollment, percent of students in special education, and overall annual spending per pupil. DREAM will automatically populate the tool with representative data based on your choices.

These “base scenario” values will be visible to you throughout DREAM, and will be displayed right next to “redesigned” scenario you are creating.

Once you have chosen your base scenario, you may continue to the Model District Cost Drivers page to model high-level resource options and the resulting impact on the district's budget. To model more detailed scenarios, you may choose any of the menu selections on the left to proceed directly to that area of the tool.

Please select the values for your base case scenario below, then click next
 
district location
 		 
 
district enrollment
 		 
 
% of students in special education
 		 
 
spending per pupil
 		 

Are you interested in modeling these resource trade-offs for your own district?
For states and districts of over 30,000 students, ERS offers My DREAM,
a customized version of the DREAM tool which includes loading of your district data
and training support to help you get the most out of DREAM. For more information, contact ERS.
 
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This research was supported by the School Finance Redesign Project at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grant No. 29252.  The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and are not intended to represent the project, center, university, or foundation.

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