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Managing district budgets during uncertain times, with Jonathan Travers | Episode 983 of The Education Gadfly Show

Jonathan Travers Michael J. Petrilli Adam Tyner, Ph.D.
8.27.2025
 

ERS president and managing partner Jonathan Travers joins Mike Petrilli on The Education Gadfly Show to talk about school district budgeting during uncertain times.

Then, on the Research Minute, Adam Tyner shares a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality looking at district policies on pay bumps for teachers with master’s degrees, and how the money could be better spent.

Recommended content:

  • The degree dilemma: School districts spend millions on ineffective master’s degree premiums —Katherine Bowser, National Council on Teacher Quality (August 2025)
  • Close bad schools and expand good ones —Chad Aldeman
  • When—and why—legislated school finance reforms don’t increase state education spending —Amber Northern and Jeff Murray
  • An in-depth look at how Texas makes teacher merit pay work —Jessica Poiner
  • The ESSER hangover is here —Marguerite Roza

Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for our show? Send them to [email protected]

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President & Managing Partner of Consulting at ERS.

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, host of the…

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Adam Tyner was a member of the Fordham Institute's national research team from 2017 to 2025. In 2025 he became executive director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy at the University of Oklahoma.

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