Week of 5/17: Masks And Schools
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...
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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.
Week of 5/10: Cities and the Transition to Traditional
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...
Dennis Roche
May 9, 2021
Week of 5/3: Remaining Obstacles
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...
Dennis Roche
May 2, 2021
Week of 4/26: K-5 Virtual Nearing Zero
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...
Dennis Roche
Apr 25, 2021
Week of 4/19: YTD Averages
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...
Dennis Roche
Apr 18, 2021
Week of 4/12: Outlook for the End of the Year
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...
Dennis Roche
Apr 11, 2021
Week of 4/5: Where Hybrid Predominates
The percent of K-12 students attending traditional schools increased this week as both virtual and hybrid declined for the second straight week,...
Dennis Roche
Apr 4, 2021
Week of 3/29: Year to Date Trends
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...
Dennis Roche
Mar 28, 2021
Week of 3/22: Where It Is Still Virtual
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...
Dennis Roche
Mar 21, 2021
Week of 3/15: Executive Actions
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...
Dennis Roche
Mar 14, 2021
Week of 3/8: California Lagging
This week the percent of students attending "virtual" schools dropped to under 25% on a national level. "Always Virtual" regions are returning their...
Dennis Roche
Mar 7, 2021
Week of 3/1: The Long Phase-Ins
This week the percent of students attending "virtual" schools dropped by over three percentage points as 'Always Virtual' areas continue returning...
Dennis Roche
Feb 28, 2021