Week of 4/11: Charting Enrollment
This week we take a deep dive into public school enrollment by charting trends according to "Locale Classification" as well as trends by grade, both...
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 4/4: Unwinding Disruption
For a sample dataset of ESSER III spending plans for 125 school districts with over $3 billion in ESSER III allocations, email dennis@burbio.com or...
Dennis Roche
Apr 3, 2022
Week of 3/28: Virtual Variety
This week we add more states to our overview of K-12 enrollment trends between the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years. Mask policy changes have...
Dennis Roche
Mar 27, 2022
Week of 3/21: K-12 Enrollment Trends
Over ninety percent of the Top 500 school districts are now mask-optional. This week we look at K-12 public school enrollments for 2021/22 versus...
Dennis Roche
Mar 20, 2022
Week of 3/14: Covid-Era In-Person Indexes
Over two-thirds of the Top 500 districts are now mask-optional. We take a look at national school opening indexes during the Covid-19 era, and...
Dennis Roche
Mar 13, 2022
Week of 3/7: Mental Health Spending
This week there was an acceleration of districts shifting to mask-optional policies as several states moved up their dates for allowing local...
Dennis Roche
Mar 6, 2022
Week of 2/28: Majority Mask-Optional
For the first time the number of Top 500 districts that are mask-optional exceeds the number that are mask-required, and we expect that trend to...
Dennis Roche
Feb 27, 2022
Week of 2/21: Camps & Academies
Several more states have removed mask mandates, and we have started to see more Top 500 districts adopt mask-optional policies. School disruptions...
Dennis Roche
Feb 20, 2022
Week of 2/14: High Dosage, Low Ratio
Disruptions stayed at their reduced levels of the previous week. We revisit the mask mandate figures for the Top 500 as states announce policy...
Dennis Roche
Feb 13, 2022
Week of 2/7: Disruptions Plummet
Disruptions dropped dramatically this week to levels not seen since October. NCES published district level enrollment figures for 2020/21. This past...
Dennis Roche
Feb 6, 2022
Week of 1/31: Re-Mapping Mask Mandates
Disruptions continued their decline from last week. This week we introduce a revised Mask Policy Tracker that details the Top 500 districts across...
Dennis Roche
Jan 30, 2022
Week of 1/24: Slowdown
Last week we saw a gradual slowdown in disruptions across the US as schools that closed or went virtual over MLK Weekend reopened for in-person...
Dennis Roche
Jan 23, 2022