School Spending
Education Choice Means Accountability to Families
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School Spending
How Much Pandemic Relief Money Will Be Wasted on Professional Development?
A push to go beyond “sit and get”
School Spending
Biden Administration Sues a City Over “Rampant Overspending on Teacher Salaries”
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Punishment for Making Hard Choices in a Crisis: Federal Prison
Why every education leader should care about what happened to Julia Keleher
School Spending
Ed Finance Guru Marguerite Roza on How Schools Can Best Spend Covid Aid
One concern: using the money to backfill budgets that should have been rightsized years ago for enrollment drops that started long before the pandemic.
School Spending
Don’t Plan on That Federal Education Spending Spree
Ambitious plans to make community college “free” or pre-K “universal” will have to be radically downsized.
School Spending
Maintenance of Equity: A New Provision with Big Implications for District Budgeting
An expansive interpretation could have unintended consequences
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How to Improve Teaching After the Pandemic
It’s wholly possible for schools to figure out how to leverage staff more effectively; it’s just not the way teachers’ work has traditionally been organized.
School Spending
New Federal Money is Coming to Schools. There Are Other Options for Spending it Than Hiring Lots More Staff.
Try tutoring, time, technology, or other new ideas instead.
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