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 11/7: Spend Down

This week we look at enrollment trends, ESSER III spend down rates, and other K-12 news from around the country.

K-12 Spending

Week of 10/31:  Early Enrollments

This week we look at 2022/23 enrollment summaries from two states, plus data related to last week's release of NAEP Assessments.

School Enrollment

Week of 10/24: Functions & Objects

District budgets are often highly detailed and thus our spending categorizations are very granular, but they can also be rolled up to see higher...

School Grants

Week of 10/17: SEL, Mental Health & Engagement

In previous blogs we have covered examples of initiatives covering mental health, student engagement, and attendance across K-12. This week we drill...

School Grants

Week of 10/10: One-to-One

Initiatives to provide one device for each student are reflected in multiple areas of school district spending.

K-12 Spending

Week of 10/3: $1 Billion-Plus

As our district set now covers 81% of the K-12 public school population we wanted to size some of the markets, several of which exceed $1 billion.

School Grants

Week of 9/26: "Just Two Days a Month"

This week we look at district ESSER III spending by district size, and communication to parents about the importance of daily school attendance.

School Grants

Week of 9/19: Dollars Per Student

This week we take a look at enrollment trends in districts getting the highest levels of ESSER III funding.

K-12 Spending

Week of 9/12: 2019 Benchmarks

This week we look at districts with increasing enrollment, including some that have not recovered back to pre-Covid-19 levels.

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

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