Week of 9/6: No Exceptions
Through 9/3 roughly 90% of US K-12 public school students have started school. This week over half the students in New Jersey, Oregon and Minnesota...
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 8/30: Disruption Trends
Through 8/27 approximately 75% of US K-12 students had started school. This week 15% of US K-12 students start, including the majority in Northeast...
Dennis Roche
Aug 29, 2021
Week of 8/23: Mapping Disruptions
On a percentage basis we saw a material increase in school closures this week and we have added a new map measuring the situation. The map can be...
Dennis Roche
Aug 22, 2021
Week of 8/16: Close Contacts
This week just over 25% of US K-12 students return to school, bringing the cumulative total to 62%.
Dennis Roche
Aug 15, 2021
Week of 8/9: "Test to Stay"
Through Friday August 6th, roughly 11 percent of US K-12 students had started school; many districts started Wednesday and Thursday. Arizona,...
Dennis Roche
Aug 8, 2021
Week of 8/2: Testing School Openings
Just over 10 percent of US K-12 students start school this week, with the majority of students in Hawaii, Mississippi, Arizona and Georgia starting,...
Dennis Roche
Aug 1, 2021
Week of 7/26: Staggered Start
The first K-12 schools opened this week and rising Covid 19 rates haven't affected announced start plans. We continue to note trends in testing and...
Dennis Roche
Jul 25, 2021
Week of 7/19: Fallback Plans
This week we look at districts who are dropping virtual learning days into their ongoing schedules, trends in Covid-19 testing, mask mandate changes...
Dennis Roche
Jul 18, 2021
Week of 7/12: First to Open
This week we highlight districts starting the school year earliest of those that were hybrid or virtual at the end of the 2020/21 school year. The...
Dennis Roche
Jul 11, 2021
Week of 7/5: What's Uncertain
Burbio's data was the basis for a study published on June 29th in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on disparities in learning...
Dennis Roche
Jul 4, 2021
Week of 6/28: Indexing Versus Year Ago
This week we look at early indications of district spending plans based on the recent stimulus, as well as some major retailers and how their...
Dennis Roche
Jun 27, 2021
Week of 6/21: In Just Six Weeks
In addition to observations from across the US, we note the impending school start dates for 2021/22 that are coming up in early August.
Dennis Roche
Jun 20, 2021