Week of 12/5: CapEx
This week we look at K-12 disruptions related to illnesses, CapEx budgets and continued enrollment announcements.
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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 11/21: A Fourteenth Grade
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...
Dennis Roche
Nov 21, 2022
Week of 11/14: "Weekend to Recover"
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.
Dennis Roche
Nov 14, 2022
Week of 11/7: Spend Down
This week we look at enrollment trends, ESSER III spend down rates, and other K-12 news from around the country.
Dennis Roche
Nov 7, 2022
Week of 10/31: Early Enrollments
This week we look at 2022/23 enrollment summaries from two states, plus data related to last week's release of NAEP Assessments.
Dennis Roche
Oct 31, 2022
Week of 10/24: Functions & Objects
District budgets are often highly detailed and thus our spending categorizations are very granular, but they can also be rolled up to see higher...
Dennis Roche
Oct 23, 2022
Week of 10/17: SEL, Mental Health & Engagement
In previous blogs we have covered examples of initiatives covering mental health, student engagement, and attendance across K-12. This week we drill...
Dennis Roche
Oct 17, 2022
Week of 10/10: One-to-One
Initiatives to provide one device for each student are reflected in multiple areas of school district spending.
Dennis Roche
Oct 9, 2022
Week of 10/3: $1 Billion-Plus
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.
Dennis Roche
Oct 3, 2022
Week of 9/26: "Just Two Days a Month"
This week we look at district ESSER III spending by district size, and communication to parents about the importance of daily school attendance.
Dennis Roche
Sep 25, 2022
Week of 9/19: Dollars Per Student
This week we take a look at enrollment trends in districts getting the highest levels of ESSER III funding.
Dennis Roche
Sep 18, 2022
Week of 9/12: 2019 Benchmarks
This week we look at districts with increasing enrollment, including some that have not recovered back to pre-Covid-19 levels.
Dennis Roche
Sep 11, 2022