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Commentary
5.5.2022
School Finance, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Using ESSER funds for retention bonuses makes sense if targeted strategically

Dan Goldhaber

The money is pouring in, but so are the education challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically affected student achievement, particularly for poorer students and students of color.

Christian Eggers SR 5-4-22 image
Commentary
5.2.2022
School Finance

Can investing in elementary schools prevent crime?

Christian Eggers

The nationwide surge in violent crime, which preceded the pandemic but accelerated in 2020, has prompted a range of policy responses, from expanding

Christian Eggers SR 5-4-22 image
Commentary
2.10.2022
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

What factors predict states’ embrace of private school choice?

Nathaniel Grossman

School choice is on the rise. In the last few decades, families have benefited from an explosion of educational options.

Commentary
11.18.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

In almost every state, funding gaps between rich and poor schools have been closed

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

The conventional wisdom is that American students from poor families are mostly stuck in sorely underfunded public schools while more affluent families have access to well-resourced ones. For decades, this was largely true.

Commentary
10.21.2021
School Finance, Governance, Private School Choice

How do parents use education savings accounts?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

Whether due to the pandemic, political opportunism, popular demand, or a combination, education savings accounts (ESAs) are enjoying much attention and growth

Commentary
9.30.2021
School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance, Private School Choice, Teachers & School Leaders

Use pandemic recovery funds to empower both schools and families

Bruno V. Manno

Covid-19 school shock disrupted our way of doing education, unbundling the familiar division of responsibilities among home, school, and community organizations. Nearly every parent of school-age children had to create from scratch a home learning environment using online technology and rebundling school services to meet their needs.

Commentary
9.23.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

There’s a fiscal cliff coming, and some districts appear hell-bent on making it worse

Marguerite Roza

We’ve been polling district finance leaders about their biggest concern in this moment, and the most common answer is financial problems down the road.

Podcast
8.5.2021
School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance

The Education Gadfly Show #781: The House Democrats’ attack on charter schools

  On this week’s podcast, Ron Rice, senior director of government relations at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools,

Podcast
7.22.2021
School Finance, Governance

The Education Gadfly Show #779: How districts are spending federal aid

  On this week’s podcast, Bree Dusseault, practitioner-in-residence at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, joins Mike Petrilli a

Podcast
5.27.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

The Education Gadfly Show #771: Same old, same old: How districts are spending federal relief dollars (so far)

On this week’s podcast, Chad Aldeman, policy director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, joi

Podcast
5.6.2021
School Finance

The Education Gadfly Show #768: Debating Biden’s universal pre-K plan

  On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli, Checker Finn, and David Griffith discuss President Biden’s proposal for universal preschool.

Commentary
4.30.2021
School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance

Don’t believe the haters. The federal Charter Schools Program deserves full funding.

Libby Sobic

In the coming weeks, the House Appropriations subcommittee that decides on education spending will consider how much money to allocate to the federal Charter School Program (CSP).

Commentary
4.22.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance

How does money matter for schools?

Adam Tyner, Ph.D.

The “Does money matter?” debate has been getting boring. The idea that increasing school spending wouldn’t make the schools work at least a little better probably never made much sense to begin with.

Podcast
4.15.2021
School Finance

The Education Gadfly Show: A victory for charter school funding in Oklahoma

  On this week’s podcast, Chris Brewster, president of the Oklahoma Public Charter School Association, joins Mike Petrilli and Dav

Commentary
4.8.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Reduce class sizes, lengthen the school year, provide tutoring—or let principals decide?

Marguerite Roza, Chad Aldeman

District leaders may be celebrating the $122 billion in stimulus relief Congress approved for K–12 schools last month.

Commentary
3.26.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Best- and worst-case scenarios for how school stimulus dollars will be spent

Chad Aldeman

In the last year, Congress has now invested nearly $200 billion to support K–12 education. It’s an unprecedented federal infusion of money, but will it lead to an unprecedented recovery effort? It’s worth taking a moment to pause and consider the range of possibilities. Best case

Commentary
3.25.2021
School Finance, Charter Schools

Our full rebuttal to a flawed critique of “Robbers or Victims? Charter Schools and District Finances”

Earlier this month on her “Answer Sheet” blog in the Washington Post, Valerie Strauss ran a lengthy rebuttal written by Carol Burris about a study that we recently published. Robbers or Victims?

Commentary
3.25.2021
School Finance, Governance

The stimulus package won’t fix schools’ employee-benefit problem

Brandon L. Wright

Editor’s note: This is the second post in a series that puts the themes of 2020’s Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck into today’s context, with particular attention to the effects of the pandemic and federal relief dollars.

Commentary
3.18.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

A challenging funding future for schools—made worse by the pandemic

Brandon L. Wright

Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series that puts the themes of 2020’s Getting the Most Bang for the Education Buck into today’s context, with particular attention to the effects of the pandemic and federal relief dollars.

Commentary
2.25.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Charter school growth increases resources in district-run schools

Patrick Wolf

Education funding is sticky. Once dollars are sent to a public school or school system, they tend to stay there.

Commentary
2.12.2021
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

How schools should spend federal Covid-19 aid

Brandon L. Wright

With two big rounds of Covid-19 aid having been sent to schools and at least a third on the horizon, leaders must make difficult decisions, especially as more schools reopen and the pandemic rages on. How can they use this money to best mitigate risk, facilitate effective hybrid learning, and most importantly, get kids back on track after suffering substantial learning losses?

Commentary
2.11.2021
School Finance, Governance

Massive student loan forgiveness would be a lost opportunity to help needy Americans

Michael J. Petrilli

It’s not surprising that most of the arguments against widespread student loan forgiveness are coming from the political right, given that the idea itself gained prominence during the 2020 presidential campaigns of Senators Bernie Sander

Commentary
2.9.2021
Evidence-Based Learning, School Finance, Charter Schools

Are charter schools a drain on district finances?

David Griffith, Michael J. Petrilli

Should President Biden follow through on his campaign promise to grant local school districts veto power over the creation of new charter schools within their borders, on the assumption that their expansion harms traditional public schools?

Report
2.9.2021
School Finance, Charter Schools

Robbers or Victims? Charter Schools and District Finances

Mark Weber

Opponents of charters contend that they drain district coffers, while proponents argue that it is charters that are denied essential funding. Yet too often, the claims made by both sides of this debate have been based on assumptions rather than hard evidence.

Event
1.19.2021
School Finance

Webinar: How should schools spend federal Covid-19 aid?

With federal coronavirus relief, schools are wrestling with a host of thorny questions. Especially under the new Joe Biden administration, how much federal aid is coming? What rules will govern its use? Most importantly, how can schools spend the funds effectively when reopening schools, improving remote learning, and helping students get back on track?

Commentary
12.17.2020
School Finance, Charter Schools, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Mind the gap: Persistent and growing inequities in charter school funding

Victoria McDougald

Like traditional public schools, charter schools are publicly funded according to student enrollment. But compared to their district counterparts, charters have long received far less per-pupil funding.

Podcast
11.19.2020
School Finance

The Education Gadfly Show: State budget cuts and our schools

  On this week’s podcast, ExcelinEd’s Matthew Joseph and The Education Trust’s Zahava Stadler join Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss how states can

Commentary
11.13.2020
School Finance, Teachers & School Leaders

Use caution, district leaders: Even in a pandemic, there’s no immunity from financial missteps

Marguerite Roza

Charges of financial blunders have taken out district leaders before. Think the pandemic inoculates leaders from that possible fate? Think again.

Commentary
11.12.2020
School Finance, Governance, Teachers & School Leaders

Democrats’ ed designs dealt setback in statehouses

Dale Chu

Control of state legislatures is particularly important in a census year, but it’s also an often-overlooked element in driving substantive education policy changes. National politics takes up all the oxygen, but it’s state legislators who make most of the big decisions about how a state’s public-education system operates, is funded, is held accountable (if at all), and much more.

Commentary
11.5.2020
School Finance, Governance

Our aging population will end this golden era of school spending

Andrew J. Rotherham

Spend a few minutes on education Twitter or listening to the loudest special-interest voices, and you’d think the future of public education hinges on whether Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and the president can agree to another stimulus deal. That’s just a short-term Washington game—that will likely soon have a new roster of players.

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