Over the past two posts, I’ve written about what education finance data cannot tell us: why we still don’t have a detailed understanding of the impact of $189.5 billion in ESSER spending, and the impo...

Karega Rausch, a longtime national charter school advocate, was unanimously chosen to lead Indianapolis's new agency overseeing both IPS and charter schools.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S.

California K-12 schools experienced the largest decline in enrollment since 2021-22 due to declining birth rates and immigration losses, resulting in budget deficits, staff layoffs and program cuts.

We need leaders at all levels — but especially at the state level where policy is usually made — to offer districts clearer support and guidelines about appropriate and inappropriate uses.

Faculty expert provides his theories as to why crows no longer roost at the North Creek Wetland on campus

In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments opened in former schools. Some see the conversions as a cure for neighborhood blight. Others fear gentrification.

Research funding opportunities At EdFund, we envision evidence-based state funding policies that align with district and student needs. To make this vision a reality, we need research that is actionab...

Schools closing isn’t super common, but it does happen. Data WNIJ obtained from the Illinois State Board of Education shows 72 public schools have closed in the past five years.

Our new report digs into the transaction-level data to find out about whether those dollars are in fact going to educational expenses.

Education finance experts say the effectiveness of relief funds is hard to measure — but schools would be worse off without the money.

Jon Fullerton

The DOE has not taken the effort seriously and has no real plan for how to meet a legislative mandate to spend 30% of its food budget locally by 2030, according to a state audit.

By Alyn Turner When districts announce school closures, the framing is almost always educational: declining enrollment, underutilized buildings, operating costs, academic performance. But for the comm...

This blog by Acting IES Director Matthew Soldner accompanies the release of Dr. Amber Northern's "Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences: A Strategy for Relevance and Renewal."

Brown: With passage of state legislation, the city will embark on an ambitious plan putting charters and district schools on equal footing.

As more state legislatures become laboratories of housing policy experimentation, social science researchers have once-in-a-generation opportunities to evaluate how pro-housing policies are working in...

'Everybody’s affected’: Fear, anger and chaos as classrooms empty out, distance learning fails, student mental health suffers and teachers struggle.

Amazon has joined Starlink, Google, and Meta in the scramble to control how Africa goes online.

Talarico’s two years as a public school teacher is central to his Democratic Senate campaign after shaping his policy goals and driving his political rise through the Texas House.

Fair/equitable/adequate access to facilities, transportation, local property tax revenue, and special education services has long served as point of tension between #schooldistricts and public #charte...

Polikoff: New study shows just how much well-intentioned efforts to eliminate testing and water down grades are hurting student learning.

Whether spurred by pandemic closures or post-COVID frustration, higher-income families are increasingly separating from public schools.

Using traces of behaviors to predict outcomes is useful in varied contexts ranging from buyer behaviors to behaviors collected from smart-home devices. Increasingly, higher education systems have been...