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.
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 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 8/15: 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
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 25, 2022
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.
Dennis Roche
Jul 18, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 11, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Jul 7, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Jun 26, 2022
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...
Dennis Roche
Jun 22, 2022