Burbio School Tracker 8/20: Newcomers & Master Plans
In this week's Tracker we cover the increase in frequency of school board discussions about new student arrivals and English Learners, a profile of...
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.
Burbio School Tracker 8/6: Finding Funding
In this week's Tracker we focus on three sources of immediate funding opportunities in K-12: state grants (using Pennsylvania as an example), school...
Dennis Roche
Aug 6, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 7/22: LCAPs, New Jersey & Start Dates
This week we profile California LCAPs, which are now being published for 2024-25, plus New Jersey state grants, phone policies in school board...
Dennis Roche
Jul 22, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 7/9: Charting Expenditure Trends
This week we look at trends in school board meeting discussions in AI, a visualization of school budgets from "ESSER-heavy" districts across the...
Dennis Roche
Jul 9, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 6/18: Starting Line
This week we look at Superintendent turnover percentages in some large states, profile grants with impending deadlines for the 2024-25 year, and...
Dennis Roche
Jun 18, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 6/5: 2024-25 Budgets
This week we look at 2024-25 budgets for some districts that received the most dollars-per-student of soon-to-be-expiring federal aid. We also look...
Dennis Roche
Jun 5, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 5/28: Sizing the State Grant Market
This week we break down the K-12 state grant market by category, review regional differences in key board meeting discussions, and map the percent of...
Dennis Roche
May 28, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 5/14: 5% and Below
This week we look at some clear differences in topics discussed in school board meetings across separate states and regions, highlight Early...
Dennis Roche
May 14, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 4/30: Superintendent Turnover
This week we introduce a new dataset that documents when K-12 district Superintendents change, profile upcoming start dates for new Superintendents,...
Dennis Roche
Apr 30, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 4/16: 31 States
This week we look at references to staff cuts in school board meetings, examine state-level CTE grants, review updated ESSER III spending percentages...
Dennis Roche
Apr 17, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 4/2: Proposed, Not Approved
This week we look at proposed state-level grant programs for 2024-25, changes in priorities in post-Covid strategic plans, mentions of social media...
Dennis Roche
Apr 2, 2024
Burbio School Tracker 3/19: 47 Out of 50
This week we compare pre- and post-Covid student enrollments for districts that received the most ESSER III dollars per student, the state-level...
Dennis Roche
Mar 19, 2024