A new analysis proposes improvements to funding and regulating education for multilingual learners.

NEPC Fellow Christopher Saldaña has been awarded a NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship to help support his work on ways that the capacity of school districts shapes their ability to negotiate relatio...

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña speaks with Susanna Loeb about the the recent release of Getting Down to Facts 3, a Stanford SCALE Initiative project that bring...

Here’s a quick summary of a thread I recently posted on both BlueSky and X. Storytime – for those who want to push some “southern” miracle in public schooling – using …

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña speaks with Michael Rebell and Luisa Sanchez about the history of school finance adequacy litigation, highlighting how young adv...

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Ain Grooms, Joshua Childs, and April Peters about implementing educational leadership systems that genuinely center e...

An evaluation of the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and D.C.

Critiques of public education have intensified, and while some reflect real needs for improvement, many are manufactured crises that portray schools as broadly failing. Centered on claims of underachi...

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Erica Turner and Bryan Mann about how demographic change is reshaping American schools and how current policy respons...

The goal of this review is to synthesize recent, methodologically and conceptually diverse bodies of literature addressing the cause and consequence o…

School choice policy is often touted as offering more choices to families whose school options are limited by traditional zoning. However, too many options or t...

This post is a paper I published in 1997 in American Journal of Educational Research. Here’s a link to a PDF of the original. It became the framing chapter in my 1997 book, How to Succeed In School Wi...

Last month, the Tennessee Attorney General issued a legal opinion that the state’s ban on religious charter schools was “likely” unconstitutional. Days later, the Knox County school board was sued ove...

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Gov. Spencer Cox approved the repeal of a policy experts called one of the country's most restrictive labor laws.

Join us for a conversation with the authors of a new study, Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters, to discuss the impacts of privatization on rural schools in Wisc...

Little research has examined how K–12 fiscal accountability policies and practices intersect with district finances and student outcomes during periods of econo...

Join us for a conversation with the authors of a new study, Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters, to discuss the impacts of privatization on rural schools in Wisc...

Join us for a conversation with the authors of a new study, Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters, to discuss the impacts of privatization on rural schools in Wisc...

The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...

So-called “education preserves” would protect rural communities at risk of losing their public schools to school choice sprawl.

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University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews Julie Marsh and James Bridgeforth about the unprecedented challenges facing California school board members and how t...

Backers of a new Christian public school say if the state doesn’t agree to fund the school, it would amount to religious discrimination.