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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School Grants

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...

Budgets

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...

School Grants

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...

School Grants

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.

K-12 Spending

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...

K-12 Spending

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...

K-12 Spending

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...

K-12 Spending

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...

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...

K-12 Spending

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...

School Board Meetings

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...

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