Klarryse Murphy, CFO of Ravalli County, Mt., manages a $35 million annual budget and has recently transitioned from a long-standing manual budget process to a collaborative, integrated cloud solution.

If outcome-based contracting continues to gain traction, it will offer a robust framework for creating a more accountable, data-driven education system that prioritizes student outcomes.

'Outcomes-based education funding is highly controversial. It is ineffective and can make inequities worse. And this Texas version, which is especially bad, will result in the rich getting richer ...