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.
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.
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...
Dennis Roche
Oct 23, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Oct 17, 2022
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.
Dennis Roche
Oct 9, 2022
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.
Dennis Roche
Sep 25, 2022
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.
Dennis Roche
Sep 18, 2022
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.
Dennis Roche
Sep 11, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Sep 5, 2022
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
Dennis Roche
Aug 28, 2022
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
Dennis Roche
Aug 21, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Aug 14, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 31, 2022