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With billions of federal Covid-relief aid flowing to school districts and charter organizations, we’ve spent the past few weeks analyzing how local educators plan to use that money, tapping a database of spending plans for more than 2,700 districts representing 56 percent of public-school students and $64 billion in federal funding.
Our latest analysis ([link removed]) breaks down local spending by district poverty level and reveals some surprising trends. We also produced:
* An analysis ([link removed]) of spending trends among rural, urban and suburban education agencies
* A breakdown ([link removed]) of national and regional spending priorities
* Deep dives ([link removed]) on spending priorities in academic recovery, school climate, staff, facilities and technology

To help state and local policymakers use the unprecedented federal funding effectively, we published a series of research summaries on school staffing ([link removed]) and other topics; we partnered with The Education Trust and Education Reform Now to release a report on promising tutoring initiatives ([link removed]) emerging in several states; and we spoke with Johns Hopkins University researcher Bob Balfanz about an ambitious new initiative ([link removed]) to keep students on track for high school graduation.

Harvard professor and former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville and colleague Lynne Sacks shared a strategy for reconnecting with students ([link removed]) struggling to rebound from the pandemic.

To gauge where education policy (and politics) is heading in the states, we compiled governors’ 2022 state-of-the-state addresses ([link removed]) and tracked state legislation restricting the teaching of racial history ([link removed]) . Nearly 100 bills have been filed in the past year.

The FutureU higher education podcast series included an interview with outgoing University of Maryland, Baltimore County President Freeman Hrabowski ([link removed]) and a discussion of how to measure the value of higher education ([link removed]) with leaders from the United Negro Fund and Achieving The Dream.

We chronicle leadership changes throughout the education sector in The Churn ([link removed]) and we post upcoming in-person and virtual education policy events in The Horizon ([link removed]) . Send your events and leadership news to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) , and we’ll be happy to post them.

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Thanks very much and best wishes,

Tom

Thomas Toch
Director, FutureEd
McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
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