Burbio School Tracker

Our K-12 Spending and Policy insights newsletter highlighting key data points from our proprietary research, covering school funding, budgets, board meetings, strategic plans, enrollment, leadership, and more. 
 
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    K-12 Spending

    Week of 4/4: Unwinding Disruption

    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...

    School Grants

    Week of 3/28: Virtual Variety

    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...

    Week of 3/21: K-12 Enrollment Trends

    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...

    Week of 3/14: Covid-Era In-Person Indexes

    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...

    Week of 3/7: Mental Health Spending

    This week there was an acceleration of districts shifting to mask-optional policies as several states moved up their dates for allowing local...

    Week of 2/28: Majority Mask-Optional

    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...

    Week of 2/21: Camps & Academies

    Several more states have removed mask mandates, and we have started to see more Top 500 districts adopt mask-optional policies. School disruptions...

    Week of 2/14: High Dosage, Low Ratio

    Disruptions stayed at their reduced levels of the previous week. We revisit the mask mandate figures for the Top 500 as states announce policy...

    Week of 2/7: Disruptions Plummet

    Disruptions dropped dramatically this week to levels not seen since October. NCES published district level enrollment figures for 2020/21. This past...

    Week of 1/31: Re-Mapping Mask Mandates

    Disruptions continued their decline from last week. This week we introduce a revised Mask Policy Tracker that details the Top 500 districts across...

    Week of 1/24: Slowdown

    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...

    Week of 1/17: Long Weekend

    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...

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