Minnesota officials predict a $2.4 billion budget surplus, but if current trends continue, the state government will spend more than it takes in in future years
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Minnesota officials predict a $2.4 billion budget surplus, but if current trends continue, the state government will spend more than it takes in in future years
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress approves bill that averts government shutdown and pushes budget negotiations into next year.
Great piece by @bethhawkins.bsky.social about challenges MN faces in recruiting and retaining special education teachers: A 74 analysis shows Minnesota could fill its vacancies 3X over if it lured back special ed teachers from less-grueling regular ed classrooms
www.the74million.org/article/excl...
This should be getting more play. Michigan saw a MAJOR school finance improvement this year: supplemental funding that's actually responsive to the district poverty level. It'll be even better when it's fully phased in. Check out this Bellwether explainer: bellwether.org/blog/what-mi... #edusky
One important nugget from my new New America report on lessons from K-12 COVID relief: Lots of school finance people, including me, warned against using limited-time dollars for recurring staff costs. But districts often made that choice intentionally. 1/3
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
Dipping my toes (pun intended) back into writing about assessment and accountability with "Testing the Waters" a new report where we talked directly with parents in 4 states about their experiences with new models of through-year assessment. bellwether.org/publications...
Is the House allowed to decide to use RCV for this? It would be WAY more efficient.
Interesting trend: since 1989, public schools have halved the percentage of special education students spending <80% of class time in ‘general class’ (and doubled % spending >80% time in general class).
nces.ed.gov/programs/…
St. Paul Public Schools publicly tracked the effectiveness of ESSER-funded strategies. Now it's inviting the public to consider that data in setting the next budget.
www.the74million.org/article/publ...
Bellwether's Team Education Finance strikes again!
Lasting Change: A Policy Playbook for Improving State K-12 Finance Systems, offers concrete guidance for advocates, policymakers & education leaders looking to influence K-12 funding reform.
bellwether.org/publications...
I've said it once, and I will say it again. It should be illegal for states and districts to publish their data only as a PDF.
Splitting the Bill: A Bellwether Series on Education Finance Equity gives advocates, state policymakers & other stakeholders a crash course in the fundamentals of education finance. We have updated & re-released the original 9 briefs from 2021 along with 3 new briefs.
bellwether.org/publications...
-Stable governance and leadership, -Well-paid teachers, -Generous per-pupil funding, -Coordinated, consistent rigorous curriculum, -Dedicated PD and collaboration time, -Baseline social services for all families. Man, turn the music up, I love this song.
The US birth rate is continuing to decline due to a host of factors, including lack of family-friendly policies. Declining birth rates and shifting enrollment patterns are impacting K-12 schools and the funding districts receive based on per-pupil revenues.
www.k12dive.com/news/state-o...
In 2022 Minnesota law enforcement agencies seized & kept more than $3.1 million in cash, vehicles & other property from individuals who WERE NOT convicted of criminal wrongdoing. Adds up to one-third of total 2022 asset forfeiture haul made by state agencies.
minnesotareformer.com/2023/10/06/m...
About 1,100 children from 20 Indigenous tribes attended the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School for 17 years. For many of them, “school” meant forced labor, forced assimilation, and abuse. Not a real education. At least 31 students died, far from their families.
co.chalkbeat.org/2023/10/5/23...
A headline reads: Young Children Make Up the Largest Group Facing Eviction in the U.S. A sentence reads: About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk.
Babies and toddlers in the U.S. are disproportionately at risk of eviction, a new study found. And the risk is acute for Black children and their mothers, ages 20 to 35. nyti.ms/46AekF0
My colleagues and I have some recent (and forthcoming) work on how evictions impact students in Detroit. detroitpeer.org/wp-content/u...
{New} With More Teachers & Fewer Students, Districts Are Set up for Financial Trouble: www.the74million.org/article/with... via @the74.bsky.social
Lake Elmo family has been fighting 17 years for city water after state pushed PFAS into their well
Early ed, K-12 make plans for a government shutdown
Immediate concerns center on Head Start, Impact Aid and school meals, advocates said. A prolonged shutdown would make situations worse.
www.k12dive.com/news/Educato...
Small but growing & consistent evidence that the shocking growth in chronic absenteeism continued into the 2022-23 school year. From Chalkbeat's Kayln Belsha:
www.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/28/23...
K-12 school funding is an important part of state+local budgets, but public data on how these dollars flow are often inaccessible in outdated, unusable, or incomplete formats — such as PDFs.
It doesn't have to be this way.
More from me via Bellwether: bellwether.org/blog/steps-p...
The good news: Lots more students about to become eligible for free school meals!
But this comment is impt: FRL data is going to be useless for targeting funding to high-need students & for academic accountability. States need new metrics YESTERDAY. www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-20294...
