Daarel Burnette II
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These Schools Served Black Students During Segregation. There's a Fight to Preserve Them.
Civil rights leaders’ half-century struggle to get Black students access to all of America's public schools, culminating in the Brown v. Board of Education decision, is widely known. But the story of how Black people, just a handful of years after slavery ended, managed to grow a solid middle class without access to so many of America’s public schools is not nearly as well known. → Read More
District Savings Are Running Dry Amid COVID-19, Putting Some Schools in Dire Straits
Some of the nation's poorest districts, many of them mostly Black and Latino, scratch to meet pandemic-driven needs with little in the bank. → Read More
How COVID-19 Will Make Fixing America's Worst-Performing Schools Even Harder
COVID-19's fallout has shaken how states spend billions in federal aid to fix poor-performing schools serving the most-vulnerable students. → Read More
Why This Scholar Says The Last Decade Was One of Public Education's Most Brutal
In his book "Schoolhouse Burning," law professor Derek Black argues that public schools have yet to recover politically and financially from the last recession. → Read More
Districts Feel the Pain From Standoff Over COVID-19 Aid
More layoffs and damaging cuts loom as districts move deeper into the school year with their budgets depleting and Congress stalemated over emergency relief. → Read More
Five Ways America's Public Schools Could Survive the Coming Fiscal Storm
Politicians, funding advocates, and school officials are considering several fiscal strategies, including pulling from states' rainy day funds and raising taxes. → Read More
Five Reasons Policymakers Now Think Money Should No Longer 'Follow Students'
Districts across the nation this year are seeing their enrollment plummet because of the coronavirus pandemic. Some states are now considering altering their funding formulas so that the districts aren't fiscally punished. → Read More
Districts Offer Cash to Families Who Skip the School Bus
Facing big transportation costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some school districts will pay parents or caregivers to get their kids to school, or charge them for the bus ride. → Read More
Districts Lay Off Thousands of Paraprofessionals as Students Switch to Remote Learning
With looming budget cuts and no clear need for teacher aides, administrators are gutting their paraprofessional staff, a move that could have long-term academic consequences. → Read More
Superintendents Warn of More Layoffs as Enrollment Drops, Remote Learning Rises
Many state legislatures have refused to alter their attendance laws, which means less revenue for schools where enrollment drops due to the pandemic, while remote learning may reduce staffing needs. → Read More
Budget Cuts Devastated Academics During the Last Recession, New Research Finds
The study could strengthen the argument of those who back the role of money in boosting academic outcomes and raise caution flags for lawmakers considering which districts to cut from. → Read More
Should Congress Compel States to Make More-Equitable Budget Cuts?
As states prepare to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from their K-12 budgets, civil rights advocates are urging lawmakers to shield low-income districts. → Read More
Will the Coronavirus Shake Up How States Distribute K-12 Money?
School will look much different this fall when students return, and that has administrators in several states pushing lawmakers to change how they distribute K-12 aid to districts. → Read More
7 Issues Facing K-12 Budgets as COVID-Shocked Legislatures Reconvene
Competing priorities and no good choices about where to make deep cuts confront state lawmakers struggling to deal with the fiscal crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Too Expensive to Re-Open Schools? Some Superintendents Say It Is
New costs are colliding with dwindling funds—a double whammy of the coronavirus crisis that is making the re-opening of school buildings a huge financial challenge. → Read More
How Much Federal Money Do Schools Need to Survive the Coming Financial Blow?
The federal CARES Act will not be enough to spare school districts from painful budget cuts. How much would it take? → Read More
Battered By Coronavirus Closures, Some School Districts Are Starting to Furlough Staff
Hourly workers make up more than a quarter of districts' budgets and some superintendents are deciding they can no longer afford to pay them to not work. → Read More
For Schools, This Recession Will Be Worse Than the Last. Here's Why
Fiscal analysts now predict states will see a $500 billion shortfall in revenue next year. Cuts to the K-12 system will likely dwarf the spending cuts schools saw during the Great Recession. → Read More
How Will Coronavirus Affect School Spending? 9 Questions Answered
No school district will escape the financial fallout brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Here are key questions and answers about what to expect in the turbulent months and years ahead. → Read More
Hacked and Cut Off From the Public: This Is School Board Business in the Coronavirus Crisis
Social distancing is forcing school business to be conducted virtually, putting school boards in the difficult spot of making crucial decisions on spending and other issues without the same level of public input. → Read More