School Spending

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Biden Names Scholar and Education Next Contributor to Council of Economic Advisers

C. Kirabo Jackson’s research on the impact of K–12 spending leads to White House post
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ESA Expansion Underscores Urgent Need for School Finance Reform

Let more money follow students, rather than staying with school districts for students they no longer serve.
Figure 1: 22 states report no details on how ESSER dollars are spent

The Massive ESSER Experiment: Here’s what we’re learning.

Big investments in labor and vendor contracts, but scant information on how the spending affects students.
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Education Choice Means Accountability to Families

Concerns about waste and fraud in ESAs are misplaced, especially in comparison to other government programs.
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Why It’s So Tough to Get the Data Educators Want

“Data gaps” bedevil early childhood, school spending, postsecondary outcomes, and tutoring interventions.
Julia Keleher, secretary of education of Puerto Rico, was sentenced to six months in federal prison after ushering in sweeping reforms, such as including breaking up the central education bureaucracy and introducing charter schools.

Punishment for Making Hard Choices in a Crisis: Federal Prison

Why every education leader should care about what happened to Julia Keleher

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.

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