During the pandemic, America’s school districts have seen historic declines in enrollment. New data show that students and families continue to leave large and mid-sized urban districts in record numbers. What do we know about the real root causes of this trend? And what should be done about it? In this discussion, Daniel Anello (Kids […]
Topic: Education Funding
Tracking New Federal Spending: How Advocates are Monitoring ESSER Funds
Last Updated October 11, 2022 PIE Network members and partners are shining a light on the spending and impact of approximately $190 billion in new federal funding for K-12 education. Advocates are building trackers and other tools to ensure that money—distributed as part of ESSER, which you can learn more about in this brief—goes where […]
ESSER Expenditure Dashboard
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Working Group: ESSER Tracking and Advocacy
This ESSER Tracking and Advocacy Working Group is open to all Network members. In this meeting, leaders from SCORE in Tennessee, A+ Education Partnership in Alabama, and the School and State Finance Project in Connecticut will share tools they’ve built to track ESSER spending and promote the strategic use of these funds, and will join […]
An Analysis of Local School Districts’ Ambitious Post-Covid Tutoring Plans
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A year ago, school districts got a windfall of pandemic aid. How’s that going?
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Spending vs. Outcomes by School
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CHICAGO’S ENROLLMENT CRISIS
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Working Group: ESSER Tracking and Advocacy
This ESSER Tracking and Advocacy Working Group is open to all Network members. In this meeting, Chad Aldeman (Edunomics Lab) and Christine Pitts (CRPE) will share updates on efforts to track ESSER plans and actual spending and timelines for district budgeting. Kate Sobel and Jim Larson (TNTP) will share insights from a current initiative that’s […]
Improving Education Finance Equity for English Learners in the Southeast
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