Weekly Updates

Burbio School Tracker 8/7: LCAPs & Start Dates

Written by Dennis Roche | Aug 8, 2023 5:06:47 PM

1.  Burbio tracks the amount of ESSER III funding that has been spent by districts nationwide, and also has compiled over 7,000 searchable district plans representing over 83% of K-12 students and over $93 billion in spending.  Detailed charts featuring over 75 spending categories can be found on Burbio's ESSER III summary page.   

This week we start with a look at Georgia.  Statewide, districts have spent just over 50% of their ESSER III funding as of early July.  Below is a distribution of percent-spent by decile:

   

The chart below breaks down districts by the absolute amount of ESSER III spending remaining: 

   

2.  Next up we look at Massachusetts.  The following is a chart of district spending by percentage.   Massachusetts’ last reporting date is from last month and as a state they have spent just under one-third of their ESSER III funding:

   

Below is the chart with district count and remaining ESSER III allocation: 

   

3.  California has a unique reporting mechanism for districts called a "Local Control Accountability Plan" (LCAP).   The LCAP  is a three year plan, updated annually, that outlines --  in detailed line-items -- a district's goals and strategies, along with various benchmarks and planned expenditures.  Given the scope of these documents Burbio will be adding them to our searchable database of ESSER III plans, school board meeting minutes, and strategic plans for use by partners.  LCAPs are approved at school board meetings, and we saw activity in June through our School Board Meeting Tracker.  Here are just a few examples of what we found through our searching of key terms in selected plans:

We will be including summary analysis of these documents in future posts. 

4. School start dates vary widely across the country, with school starting in late July in some districts and not until after Labor Day in others.   Local school schedules trigger economic activity in areas such as retail, travel, child care, and more.  Burbio provides school calendar data to partners that use the information to better manage forecasting and demand.  Below is a chart that shows the percent of K-12 students starting by week across the U.S. Note that one-third of students will be in classrooms by this Friday and over half students by August 16th: