In this week's Tracker we review Superintendent district turnover by district size, trends in school board meeting topics for Back to School 2024...
In this week's Tracker we review the Comprehensive Literacy State Development program, examine spending references in school budgets, and dig deeper...
In this week's Tracker we discuss insights that can be gathered from district operating budgets and capital spending plans, and introduce a market...
In this week's Tracker we look at state disclosures of district grant awardees, Superintendent turnover in the top 500 school districts, and map...
In this week's Tracker we cover trends in security initiatives, a range of infrastructure spending available from state grants, and map a variety of...
In this week's Tracker we cover trends in STEM and CTE in strategic plans, early education state grants from across the country, and introduce an...
In this week's Tracker we cover trends in Superintendent Turnover, the frequency of mental health discussions in K-12 strategic plans, state-level...
In this week's Tracker we cover the increase in frequency of school board discussions about new student arrivals and English Learners, a profile of...
In this week's Tracker we focus on three sources of immediate funding opportunities in K-12: state grants (using Pennsylvania as an example), school...
This week we profile California LCAPs, which are now being published for 2024-25, plus New Jersey state grants, phone policies in school board...
This week we look at trends in school board meeting discussions in AI, a visualization of school budgets from "ESSER-heavy" districts across the...
This week we look at Superintendent turnover percentages in some large states, profile grants with impending deadlines for the 2024-25 year, and...
This week we look at 2024-25 budgets for some districts that received the most dollars-per-student of soon-to-be-expiring federal aid. We also look...
This week we break down the K-12 state grant market by category, review regional differences in key board meeting discussions, and map the percent of...
This week we look at some clear differences in topics discussed in school board meetings across separate states and regions, highlight Early...
This week we introduce a new dataset that documents when K-12 district Superintendents change, profile upcoming start dates for new Superintendents,...
This week we look at references to staff cuts in school board meetings, examine state-level CTE grants, review updated ESSER III spending percentages...
This week we look at proposed state-level grant programs for 2024-25, changes in priorities in post-Covid strategic plans, mentions of social media...
This week we compare pre- and post-Covid student enrollments for districts that received the most ESSER III dollars per student, the state-level...
This week we break down the cohort of districts with the most available ESSER III funding heading into the 2024-25 budget year, chart trends from...
This week we look at recent trends in school board meeting discussions over the last nine months, examine ESSER III spending by district size, and...
This week we look at the role that deadlines play in state-sevel funding grants, plus take a look at unspent ESSER III funds in districts across 23...
This week we profile state-level K-12 funding sources that come from non-education departments, examine ESSER III spending rates from among the many...
This week we profile eligibility criteria for state-level funding along with some example grants, highlight states that haven't yet spent half their...
This week we discuss the landscape of state-level funding sources for K-12, review ESSER III spending rates in Oregon, and take a look at school...
This week we look at a national analysis of school district exposure to the "fiscal cliff," the substantial incentives for K-12 infrastructure built...
This week we look at California's latest ESSER III spending updates, topics covered in school board meeting minutes, and the relative pace of ESSER...
This week we examine the difference in strategic plan priorities across city, suburban, rural and town districts for certain key initiatives. We also...
This week we look at the percent of districts having spent less than 50% of their ESSER III funding in 24 states that have reported in the last 90...
This week we provide a time-series analysis of priority areas in K-12 strategic plans. We also look at ESSER III spending in Washington and quickly...
Recent news on ESSER III extensions for districts has important implications for K-12
This week we take a look at staffing and equipment mentions in K-12 school board meetings, an ESSER III update from Michigan, and an interesting...
This week we look at an updated pace of ESSER III spending nationally, references to curriculum in school board meetings, ESSER III "cliff exposure"...
This week we look at ESSER III spending from California, district-level ESSER III "cliff levels" in Pennsylvania, our expanded set of strategic...
This week we look at ESSER III spending rates in Georgia and Massachusetts, introduce a dataset for California school districts - LCAP Plans - and...
This week we present an updated distribution of ESSER III spending levels by district and introduce a new dataset: K-12 District Strategic Plans.
This we look at terms used in school board meetings across different states with examples from facilities, academic programs, and school culture,...
This week we present ESSER III spending plan details on 75+ categories, evaluate ESSER III spending nationally, and break down details from...
This week we evaluate unspent ESSER III dollars from Connecticut and Indiana, introduce an updated dashboard that will employ generative AI, and...
This week we evaluate unspent ESSER III dollars with examples from California, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Ohio, plus 2022/23 enrollments from New...
This week we review 2022-23 enrollments from Pennsylvania, examine school board terms appearing over a one year period, and introduce a market survey...
This week we break down recently announced enrollments from Texas, cumulative trends from the 41 states that have announced 2022-23 enrollments, plus...
This week we break down 2022-23 enrollments from Illinois, the percent of districts changing their ESSER III plans across the country, and top...
This week we break down recently announced enrollments in California, plus look at new data from Burbio's expanding school board meeting service,...
This week we go deeper into subjects being discussed at school board meetings involving staffing, terminations, training and more, plus review...
This week we look look at keyword searches from a new Burbio dataset, K-12 school board meeting documents, plus 2022-23 enrollment announcements in...
This week we look at CTE and ELL in ESSER III plans, a case study of a district facing declining enrollment, 2022/23 enrollments from New York, and...
ESSER III plan changes accelerate, plus enrollment announcements from Minnesota and Connecticut.
This week we look at preliminary budgets for FY 2024, update some FY 2023 trends, and look at enrollment for Michigan and Washington.
This week we look at the concentration of ESSER III allocations, fastest growing school districts, and national trends from existing 2022/23...
This week we look at terminology found in federal stimulus spending documents related to teacher training, compensation, and hiring in K-12
This week we look at industry terminology as used in federal stimulus spending documents by local districts.
This week we look at trends in technology spending across districts with different economic characteristics, 2022/23 enrollments from Florida, Ohio,...
This week we look at state-level spending on facilities in ESSER III, components of afterschool and summer school spending, Florida CapEx, and more
This week we look at the difference in stimulus spending between charter and non-charter schools, enrollment trends broken out by free or...
This week we look at some examples of state-level ESSER III spending, district-level enrollment shifts from the latest NCES data, and the residual...
This week we review recently announced NCES school enrollment data, charter school ESSER III spending rates, and more.
This week we provide updated figures for ESSER III spending categories, note the acceleration in spending by larger districts, and put some...
This week we look at continued school disruptions and trends from the fifteen states that have announced 2022/23 enrollments.
This week we look at changing ESSER III plans, as well as 2022/23 enrollment updates from three states.
This week we look at K-12 disruptions related to illnesses, CapEx budgets and continued enrollment announcements.
This week we look at Pre-K's role in district's enrollment shifts, a report out of Connecticut on remote learning, and 2022/23 enrollment...
This week we take a look at illness-driven school disruptions, 2022/23 enrollment announcements from two states, and other trends from around K-12.
This week we look at enrollment trends, ESSER III spend down rates, and other K-12 news from around the country.
This week we look at 2022/23 enrollment summaries from two states, plus data related to last week's release of NAEP Assessments.
District budgets are often highly detailed and thus our spending categorizations are very granular, but they can also be rolled up to see higher...
In previous blogs we have covered examples of initiatives covering mental health, student engagement, and attendance across K-12. This week we drill...
Initiatives to provide one device for each student are reflected in multiple areas of school district spending.
As our district set now covers 81% of the K-12 public school population we wanted to size some of the markets, several of which exceed $1 billion.
This week we look at district ESSER III spending by district size, and communication to parents about the importance of daily school attendance.
This week we take a look at enrollment trends in districts getting the highest levels of ESSER III funding.
This week we look at districts with increasing enrollment, including some that have not recovered back to pre-Covid-19 levels.
Burbio's School Budget Tracker documents detailed K-12 spending, and as part of that initiative we see discussion of district enrollments. This week...
This week we look at the percent of ESSER III funding spent by districts across fifteen states, plus school security initiatives
This week we look at expenditures for 118 of the largest 200 school district budgets from 26 states that are currently available for review
With schools opening on schedule and in-person in these first two weeks of the school year, we wanted to highlight five themes that our research team...
Covid 19 restrictions are being eliminated as districts open across the country.
By the end of this week, just over ten percent of K-12 public school students will have started school. One of the major issues of the Fall is around...
This week we look at topline FY23 school district budget changes, how school calendars are adjusting their first day of school, and other trends in...
This week we look at some trends we are seeing in annual school budgets and highlight interesting things we wre seeing in schools across the country.
This week we look at enrollment trends in grades 1-5 over the past year, recently signed legislation in Arizona, ongoing bus driver shortages, HVAC...
This week we look at the nationwide decline in middle school enrollment that occurred during 2021/22, one district's test-score turnaround, an...
This week we highlight the wide variety of school start dates across the country, twelfth grade enrollment trends, and district-level observations...
Mask mandate trends across the academic year, an example of shifts in food service delivery looming in K-12, and a snapshot of ESSER III actual...
Burbio is launching an expanded data service that breaks down 2022/23 district-level school budgets from across the U.S and provides actionable...
This week we look at the growth in Pre-K and Kindergarten enrollment by state, and also look at the wide array of tutoring programs being implemented...
This week we update our enrollment analysis with the addition of complete enrollment figures from Vermont, district-level information for Rhode...
This week we look at districts' increasingly finely-tuned Covid mitigation strategies, annual reporting on progress and priorities, enhanced summer...
This week we look at districts revising policies in the face of rising Covid 19 rates, put some numbers on planned ESSER III spending on Mental...
This week we look at the Top 15 largest gains and declines across City and Suburban school districts nationwide, plus ESSER III spending and Early...
This week we look at updated enrollment comparisons for 2021/22 versus 2020/21 and detail New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We also examine HVAC and air...
This week we take a look at California's K-12 enrollment figures for 2021/22 versus 2020/21, as well as revised national comparisons that incorporate...
This week we look at current ESSER III spending reimbursement levels across the US, as well as examples of teacher retention programs.
This week we take a deep dive into public school enrollment by charting trends according to "Locale Classification" as well as trends by grade, both...
For a sample dataset of ESSER III spending plans for 125 school districts with over $3 billion in ESSER III allocations, email dennis@burbio.com or...
This week we add more states to our overview of K-12 enrollment trends between the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years. Mask policy changes have...
Over ninety percent of the Top 500 school districts are now mask-optional. This week we look at K-12 public school enrollments for 2021/22 versus...
Over two-thirds of the Top 500 districts are now mask-optional. We take a look at national school opening indexes during the Covid-19 era, and...
This week there was an acceleration of districts shifting to mask-optional policies as several states moved up their dates for allowing local...
For the first time the number of Top 500 districts that are mask-optional exceeds the number that are mask-required, and we expect that trend to...
Several more states have removed mask mandates, and we have started to see more Top 500 districts adopt mask-optional policies. School disruptions...
Disruptions stayed at their reduced levels of the previous week. We revisit the mask mandate figures for the Top 500 as states announce policy...
Disruptions dropped dramatically this week to levels not seen since October. NCES published district level enrollment figures for 2020/21. This past...
Disruptions continued their decline from last week. This week we introduce a revised Mask Policy Tracker that details the Top 500 districts across...
Last week we saw a gradual slowdown in disruptions across the US as schools that closed or went virtual over MLK Weekend reopened for in-person...
Late this week there was an acceleration of disruptions across the country beyond the Northeast and Midwest regions that had seen the bulk of issues...
School disruptions slowed to start this week as the majority of the schools that were virtual last week did open back up for in-person learning....
We saw a continued rise in school disruptions as last week went on, driven by staff shortages. Several thousand schools that were virtual or closed...
Since last week we saw a rise in school disruptions driven by Covid 19 cases, in particular among staff. In this report we introduce a new...
We are sending this update before the holiday weekend as announcements among districts are winding down for the week. Burbio's School Opening Tracker...
We continue to see an increase in school closures due to Covid 19, in particular in pockets of the Northeast and Mid Atlantic where states such as...
We have seen an increase in disruptions beginning the week of December 20th as well as in early January due to rising Covid 19 rates in pockets of...
School closures have slowed down since the November period, outside of a major spike in Michigan related to the shooting at Oxford High School which...
We saw a smaller increase in disruptions this week versus the November period. Some districts are closing for days in advance of Christmas. We...
Closure announcements continued to rise as we identified more schools that were closed during Thanksgiving Week, as well as a growing number of...
While slightly below last week's increase we continued to see a bigger increase in school closings this week than we saw in September and October....
Closure numbers went up quite a bit this week as the trend of disruptions caused by staffing issues and "mental health" breaks accelerated. This week...
Closure numbers went up slightly this week as we started to see staffing issues and "mental health" virtual periods enter the mix. Districts across...
Closure numbers this week are similar to the last few weeks. This week we look at the recent increase in mask-optional districts and the prevalence...
Closure numbers this week were similar to the last few weeks (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page). This...
This week we saw a slight uptick in school closures versus the last few weeks and some interesting data trends. Some city districts are reporting...
The drop in in school closures (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page) continued this week. We expanded our...
This week we saw a slowdown in school closures (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page in addition to the...
This week we look at school closures (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page in addition to the visual below)....
This week we look at school closures (the up-to-date map can be found at the top of our School Opening Tracker page in addition to the visual below)...
Through last Friday 98% of US K-12 students are back in school with New York City schools opening Monday. School closures continue to increase (the...
Through 9/3 roughly 90% of US K-12 public school students have started school. This week over half the students in New Jersey, Oregon and Minnesota...
Through 8/27 approximately 75% of US K-12 students had started school. This week 15% of US K-12 students start, including the majority in Northeast...
On a percentage basis we saw a material increase in school closures this week and we have added a new map measuring the situation. The map can be...
This week just over 25% of US K-12 students return to school, bringing the cumulative total to 62%.
Through Friday August 6th, roughly 11 percent of US K-12 students had started school; many districts started Wednesday and Thursday. Arizona,...
Just over 10 percent of US K-12 students start school this week, with the majority of students in Hawaii, Mississippi, Arizona and Georgia starting,...
The first K-12 schools opened this week and rising Covid 19 rates haven't affected announced start plans. We continue to note trends in testing and...
This week we look at districts who are dropping virtual learning days into their ongoing schedules, trends in Covid-19 testing, mask mandate changes...
This week we highlight districts starting the school year earliest of those that were hybrid or virtual at the end of the 2020/21 school year. The...
Burbio's data was the basis for a study published on June 29th in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on disparities in learning...
This week we look at early indications of district spending plans based on the recent stimulus, as well as some major retailers and how their...
In addition to observations from across the US, we note the impending school start dates for 2021/22 that are coming up in early August.
In addition to observations from across the US, this week we feature a look back on in-person trends over the course of the year with a series of...
K-12 transitions have come to a close as the numbers are now fixed for the balance of the year, with just over 30% of US K-12 students attending...
This week we feature a "Year-In-Review" summary of in-person learning in big city districts versus the balance of the country as well as evolving...
Transitions slowed to a crawl this week but we did see some interesting policy movement at the state and local level with regard to re-openings. We...
Transitions are almost complete and we expect the academic year to end with roughly 30% of US K-12 students attending either hybrid or virtual...
As the year comes to a close there are very few transitions - from virtual to in-person, or from hybrid to traditional - left to be made, so the...
The continued drop in virtual this week was driven by grades 6-12 as the "Always Virtual" areas with long phase-ins offered in-person to more of...
This week the virtual-only figure took another drop as now 5.6% of all K-12 students are attending virtual-only schools. This week we examine the...
Over sixty percent of US K-12 students now attend schools that offer traditional in-person learning and less than ten percent attend virtual only...
We saw a 4.1% increase in the percentage of K-12 students attending traditional school this week as both virtual and hybrid continued to drop. The...
The percent of K-12 students attending traditional schools increased this week as both virtual and hybrid declined for the second straight week,...
This week represents the first time in our tracker that the percent of students attending virtual schools dropped in a given week and the percentage...
Over half of US K-12 students now attend schools with traditional learning and less than twenty percent attend virtual-only schools. The new 3 feet...
The number of students attending virtual dropped by 2.9% this week to 20.8%. Middle and high school students returned to in-person learning a bit...
This week the percent of students attending "virtual" schools dropped to under 25% on a national level. "Always Virtual" regions are returning their...
This week the percent of students attending "virtual" schools dropped by over three percentage points as 'Always Virtual' areas continue returning...
This week the number of K-12 students attending virtual-only schools dropped below one-third for the first time as "Always Virtual" regions continued...
This week the number of K-12 students attending virtual-only schools continued to drop, albeit at a slower rate than recent weeks as the part of the...
This week the number of K-12 students attending virtual-only schools dropped to its lowest point since we began tracking the index as "Always...
This week 'virtual-only' learning continued to drop, albeit at a slower pace than previous weeks.
This week we saw the biggest drop in "virtual-only" students since September as many districts returned to in-person learning after precautionary...
This week the percentage of students attending virtual only schools dropped for the first time since early November.
Virtual-only learning rose slightly this week. The data from our report is through Sunday January 10th. Many virtual districts from the Midwest and...
Virtual-only learning rose further above 50 percent this week as additional schools went virtual upon returning from school break. We expect this to...
Virtual-only learning rose above 50 percent again this week as schools went virtual this past week in advance of the holiday.
As we forecast, with the return of a portion of NYC students to school this week, as well as districts returning from a post-Thanksgiving...
The country saw a continued drift to virtual only instruction. A number of districts across the US have announced in-person return dates on December...
The country saw a continued shift to virtual learning this week, in particular due to post-Thanksgiving precautionary closures. NYC's reopening...
The country saw a large shift to virtual learning this week. Closures are spreading beyond the Midwest and parts of the Rockies to include the...
As of this writing (Sunday, 11/15 at mid-day), NYC schools are still open. If they are shut down, the number of US K-12 students attending "virtual...
This week in K-12, we saw the introduction of in-person learning essentially come to a halt due to increasing Covid levels and a slight decrease in...
Last week we forecast that in person openings were going to slow considerably and we saw that this week. We also see our first indications that...
We think openings are going to slow dramatically for the indefinite future based on mitigation policies in place in the areas where districts haven't...
Burbio's data was used in an interview with Dr Fauci last Wednesday by CBS; the spirit of the question was that millions of students are back in the...
Below is a report on our most recent school learning plans, along with additional flavor.
To review, Burbio's launched the audit on August 11th showing 52% "virtual only" and it shifted dramatically as the month went on and increased to...
Where there have been state-wide bans on in person learning, the decision to have in person schooling is a multi-step process. A state level...