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.
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.
Week of 9/5: Forecasting Decline
Burbio's School Budget Tracker documents detailed K-12 spending, and as part of that initiative we see discussion of district enrollments. This week...
Dennis Roche
Sep 5, 2022
Week of 8/29: Percent Spent
This week we look at the percent of ESSER III funding spent by districts across fifteen states, plus school security initiatives
Dennis Roche
Aug 28, 2022
Week of 8/22: Expenditure Increases
This week we look at expenditures for 118 of the largest 200 school district budgets from 26 states that are currently available for review
Dennis Roche
Aug 21, 2022
Week of 8/15: Five Themes
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...
Dennis Roche
Aug 14, 2022
Week of 8/8: "Pre-Covid Expectations"
Covid 19 restrictions are being eliminated as districts open across the country.
Dennis Roche
Aug 6, 2022
Week of 8/1: Staffing Disruptions
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 31, 2022
Week of 7/25: Topline Revenues
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 25, 2022
Week of 7/18: "Budget Considerations"
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.
Dennis Roche
Jul 18, 2022
Week of 7/11: The Drop in Grades 1-5
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 11, 2022
Week of 7/4: Middle School Decline
This week we look at the nationwide decline in middle school enrollment that occurred during 2021/22, one district's test-score turnaround, an...
Dennis Roche
Jul 7, 2022
Week of 6/27: Six Weeks to Back-To-School
This week we highlight the wide variety of school start dates across the country, twelfth grade enrollment trends, and district-level observations...
Dennis Roche
Jun 26, 2022