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 9/5: Forecasting Decline

    Burbio's School Budget Tracker documents detailed K-12 spending, and as part of that initiative we see discussion of district enrollments. This week...

    School Grants

    Week of 8/29:  Percent Spent

    This week we look at the percent of ESSER III funding spent by districts across fifteen states, plus school security initiatives

    School Grants

    Week of 8/22: Expenditure Increases

    This week we look at expenditures for 118 of the largest 200 school district budgets from 26 states that are currently available for review

    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...

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