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...
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 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
Week of 6/20: Lunch Money
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...
Dennis Roche
Jun 22, 2022
Week of 6/13: Lockdown Buckets
Burbio is launching an expanded data service that breaks down 2022/23 district-level school budgets from across the U.S and provides actionable...
Dennis Roche
Jun 12, 2022
Week of 6/6: The Jump in Pre-K
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...
Dennis Roche
Jun 5, 2022
Week of 5/30: Protocols
This week we update our enrollment analysis with the addition of complete enrollment figures from Vermont, district-level information for Rhode...
Dennis Roche
May 29, 2022
Week of 5/23: State of the Schools
This week we look at districts' increasingly finely-tuned Covid mitigation strategies, annual reporting on progress and priorities, enhanced summer...
Dennis Roche
May 22, 2022
Week of 5/16: Mask Advisory
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...
Dennis Roche
May 15, 2022