Policy

This year, April will bring showers of additional funding for education. The third pandemic stimulus bill, the American Rescue Plan (ARP), was signed into law on March 11, 2021, adding more relief for education. To date, the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Fund) has received funds in...

Passed in April 2020, the CARES Act included $13.2 billion earmarked for education. In our October funding update, we outlined the three areas of priority for how states planned to spend their allocated CARES Act funds. According to a portal launched by the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) last year to...

Here we are at the start of a new school year, albeit one unlike any other. And as you probably already know, Congress has allocated an unprecedented amount of federal education funding to help school districts overcome the unique...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, parents of K-12 students in the United States are full of questions about if, how, and when their kids will go back to school this fall.

As the coronavirus pandemic lingers, pressure is mounting for politicians and policymakers to come up with school reopening plans that are mindful of student, family, and staff needs. But with the next academic year drawing ever closer, plans for reopening remain uncertain at best. For one thing, the number of...

Schools across the United States have been shut down since March, with no obvious reopening date in sight as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt everyday life for citizens around the globe. In the U.S., millions of K-12 students and teachers have been forced to acclimate to distance learning via digital...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in the United States in spring 2020, many school districts switched to distance learning seemingly overnight. Now, education experts are weighing the nature and impact of the transition on students and teachers, along with potential ways to address the resultant upheaval. The...

Among the many unknowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing seems certain: The virus will have a tremendous impact on school funding for at least the next year, if not longer. 

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the country's workforce is grappling with a new normal that has no clear end in sight. In the education sector, the massive and abrupt shift to remote learning received extensive media coverage as educators transitioned from in-person classroom instruction to teaching...

Alarm bells are ringing in school communities across the country due to the upheaval wrought by the COVID-19 crisis. For many, a particular area of concern centers on students with special education needs.