In 2009, the School District of Philadelphia spent about 59% of what it would cost to get its kids to national average outcomes. In 2024, it spent about 55%. Fifteen years, two governors’ wor…

For a hundred years the Supreme Court has asked how much control parents get over schooling, and almost never what the child is owed. Now public money follows the answer, the post-Espinoza end game…

Arizona and Florida fund universal ESAs, regulate receipts rather than learning, and leave a student who reaches 18 uneducated with almost no legal recourse.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

Arizona and Florida fund universal ESAs, regulate receipts rather than learning, and leave a student who reaches 18 uneducated with almost no legal recourse.

You can be highly efficient at producing low outcomes. Why efficiency claims require measuring cost, why spending-vs-scores charts mislead policy, and what a proper frontier analysis of 8,000 distr…

My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies, from 2009 to 2026, with receipts.

Student hospitalized during Survival Challenge on wilderness ranch; police investigation is ongoing; other concerning incidents re student safety and privacy; one guide fired; also Little B. Diddies

You can be highly efficient at producing low outcomes. Why efficiency claims require measuring cost, why spending-vs-scores charts mislead policy, and what a proper frontier analysis of 8,000 distr…

My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies, from 2009 to 2026, with receipts.

My critiques of Marguerite Roza, the Edunomics Lab, and Education Resource Strategies, from 2009 to 2026, with receipts.

A decade after I last published these lists, 47 districts with at least 2,000 students still have more than 1.5 times the child poverty rate of their labor market and spend less than 90% of what th…

A decade after I last published these lists, 47 districts with at least 2,000 students still have more than 1.5 times the child poverty rate of their labor market and spend less than 90% of what th…

A descriptive analysis of the historical and contemporary relationship between racial segregation and K-12 school funding.

A proposal for and simulation of a new "foundation formula" approach to federal K-12 funding, one in which federal funds are allocated based not only on student need (as is currently the case), but al...