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Sep 9, 2024

Wappingers Central School District superintendent Dwight Bonk greets students as they arrive at Roy C. Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, New York, for the first day of school on September 5, 2024, photo by Patrick Oehler/USA Today via Reuters

State of the Superintendent 2024: Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey

This is the latest report in the State of the Superintendent series, an annual report intended to provide a reliable, recurring snapshot of the U.S. public school superintendency. In spring 2024, superintendents were surveyed on stress and time use.

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Jul 30, 2024

Student teacher Mary Pierce (left) and lead teacher Taylor Murphy at the front of their kindergarten classroom at Stevenson Elementary, in Mesa, Arizona, April 15, 2024, photo by Megan Mendoza/USA Today via Reuters

Districts' Pandemic Recovery Efforts as COVID-Relief Aid Expires: Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey

The authors surveyed American School District Panel districts about their coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic–related academic recovery efforts as of 2023–2024 and whether they plan to make cuts to services as federal relief aid expires.

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Mar 14, 2024

Staffing, Budget, Politics, and Academic Recovery in Districts: Selected Findings from the Fall 2023 American School District Panel Survey

Authors provide an update on four key challenges that U.S. school districts face today — school staffing, budgeting, the politicization of schooling, and academic recovery efforts — using data from the fall 2023 American School District Panel survey.

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Aug 22, 2023

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Income Share Agreements: Market Structure, Communication, and Equity Implications of a Student Loan Alternative

Income share agreements (ISAs) provide a way to finance postsecondary education, but not much is known about how they work. In this report, RAND researchers examine ISA structure, analyze ISA communication, and assess implications for equity.

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Feb 7, 2023

Flexible Opportunity Funding Investments in Delaware: Lessons from District Leaders

The authors drew on surveys of Delaware local education agencies that received Opportunity Funding and describe the investments they made to improve the academic achievement of multilingual learners and students experiencing poverty.

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Feb 7, 2023

Evaluation of Delaware's Opportunity Funding and Student Success Block Grant Programs: Third and Final Year

The authors evaluated two Delaware programs for local education agencies with students experiencing poverty and multilingual learners during the 2019–2020 to 2021–2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant program.

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Jan 17, 2023

Vermont Early Care and Education Financing Study: Estimated Costs, Financing Options, and Economic Impacts

Vermont is interested in expanding families' subsidies for early care and education (ECE) programs. This report estimates the costs of a high-quality ECE system with a well-compensated workforce and identifies possible funding sources.

Journal Article

Aug 11, 2022

Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post-9/11 GI Bill

In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This change affected some institutions more than others. We find changes in tuition and student enrollment in response to changes in reimbursement rates.

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Jan 27, 2022

Evaluation of Delaware's Opportunity Funding and Student Success Block Grant Programs: Second Year

This is the second of three annual reports evaluating the implementation and effects of two Delaware funding programs for disadvantaged K–12 schools in the 2019–2020 to 2021–2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant.

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Nov 10, 2021

Summer for All: Building Coordinated Networks to Promote Access to Quality Summer Learning and Enrichment Opportunities Across a Community

In this eighth report in RAND's Summer Learning Series, the authors chronicle early efforts in four communities to create coordinated approaches to summer programming, noting their challenges, enablers, and early outcomes.

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Sep 9, 2021

School Turnaround Cost Analysis Tool

Some popular approaches to supporting low-performing schools include helping schools collect and use data to guide their planning. This tool helps education leaders assess potential costs of some of the more popular and research-supported approaches.

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Aug 23, 2021

A student uses a tablet at a socially-distanced desk during a hybrid learning day at the Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, Virginia, March 2, 2021, photo by Tom Brenner/Reuters

School Districts Have Expanded Their Nonacademic Services for 2021–2022, While Academic Offerings Remain Much the Same: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey

Results from the June 2021 American School District Panel survey suggest that while public schools are expanding their nonacademic offerings due to the pandemic, most academic programs for the 2021–2022 school year will remain the same.

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State of the Superintendent 2024: Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey

Districts' Pandemic Recovery Efforts as COVID-Relief Aid Expires: Selected Findings from the Spring 2024 American School District Panel Survey

Staffing, Budget, Politics, and Academic Recovery in Districts: Selected Findings from the Fall 2023 American School District Panel Survey

Income Share Agreements: Market Structure, Communication, and Equity Implications of a Student Loan Alternative

Flexible Opportunity Funding Investments in Delaware: Lessons from District Leaders

Evaluation of Delaware's Opportunity Funding and Student Success Block Grant Programs: Third and Final Year

Vermont Early Care and Education Financing Study: Estimated Costs, Financing Options, and Economic Impacts

Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post-9/11 GI Bill

Evaluation of Delaware's Opportunity Funding and Student Success Block Grant Programs: Second Year

Summer for All: Building Coordinated Networks to Promote Access to Quality Summer Learning and Enrichment Opportunities Across a Community

School Turnaround Cost Analysis Tool

School Districts Have Expanded Their Nonacademic Services for 2021–2022, While Academic Offerings Remain Much the Same: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey

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