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Newsletters: School Finance and Funding

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State Pre-K: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Yet to Come

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August 14, 2025

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What Would Be the Impact if Trump Succeeds in Defunding Programs Helping the Children of Migrant Families and Students Learning English? A Q&A.

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July 17, 2025

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Adequacy Without Equity: The Anatomy of a School Finance Lawsuit

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July 3, 2025

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Pulling the Rug Out Beneath McKinney-Vento: How Block Granting Will Likely Remove Protections for Unhoused Children and Youth

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June 26, 2025

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Tackling Blocking: Trump’s Proposal for Fed Ed Funds and Research on Block Grants

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June 24, 2025

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Attaching a Dollar Amount to the Culture Wars at School

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March 27, 2025

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Defunding Fed Ed: Which States Have the Most to Lose?

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March 13, 2025

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Answering the Important Questions About Closing Schools

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February 25, 2025

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Austerity or Accountability? State Financial Interventions During Economic Downturns

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October 24, 2024

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Federally Funded School Vouchers: Contrasting Party Views

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September 19, 2024

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Webinar: Examining the Public Funding of Religious Schools

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September 12, 2024

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What Role Should the Federal Government Play in Education Policy?

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August 22, 2024

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Project Estimates Price Tag for Equal Educational Opportunity in K-12

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April 25, 2024

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School Spending Is Unfair. Here’s Why.

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January 30, 2024

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Are These Vouchers on Steroids a Trainwreck in Slow Motion?

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November 7, 2023

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Football Gets Lots of Love. The Colleges? Not So Much.

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October 24, 2023

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How Corporate Welfare Can Pilfer Money From Marginalized Students and Their Schools

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August 3, 2023

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School Finance Is Unfair. This New Plan Would Help Fix It.

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March 23, 2023

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Evidence That Vouchers Are Cannibalizing Public School Budgets

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March 9, 2023

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The Concerning Connection Between School Spending, Poverty, and Race

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February 23, 2023

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ICYMI: NEPC’s Top Newsletters of 2022

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January 26, 2023

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Another Troubling Link Between K-12 Spending and Student Demographics

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November 29, 2022

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Tracing Pre-K’s Early Racist Implementation to Present-Day Policies

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November 3, 2022

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The Trickiness of Charter School Waitlists

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July 21, 2022

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The Pandemic’s Pernicious Effect on Preschool

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May 17, 2022

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Why Is the Charter Lobby So Upset About Biden’s Proposed Regulations?

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Kevin G. Welner

April 13, 2022

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Opportunity to Learn Indicators: Why They Matter More Than Ever Right Now

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January 13, 2022

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Ed Law Scholars File Brief in U.S. Supreme Court Case on State Funding for Religious Schools

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November 30, 2021

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Spend it on Schools: Holiday Edition

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November 23, 2021

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Are Regressive Spending Decisions Undermining This Progressive School Finance Reform?

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November 4, 2021

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Why Educational Funding Is More Than School Funding

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October 7, 2021

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The “Great Equalizer” Myth

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October 5, 2021

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Normal Was Never Enough. COVID Offers the Opportunity to Improve the Status Quo

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September 14, 2021

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Where Does Funding for School Resource Officers Come From? Three Federal Programs Explained

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July 13, 2021

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School Funding is Shameful. Here’s How to Change That.

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April 27, 2021

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What’s Next for PreK-12 Funding? Austerity, Subsistence or Investment?

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November 19, 2020

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New Online Game Asks: What If We Funded Education Instead?

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November 3, 2020

To Reopen or Not to Reopen: Equity-Related Arguments For and Against Resuming In-Person Instruction This Fall

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August 20, 2020

Temperature Check: School Funding and the Coronavirus Recession

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May 12, 2020

Landmark Voucher Case Could Foster Discrimination and Further Lower the Church-State Wall of Separation

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January 30, 2020

The Dark Side of Parent Fundraising

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December 17, 2019

Does Closing Schools Pay Off?

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January 29, 2019

The Education Debt

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November 20, 2018

NEPC Fellow Douglas Harris Responds to Critiques of Study, and a Q&A on the Effect of New Orleans School Reforms

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November 6, 2018

Irony at the IRS: Cracking Down on Blue State Tactic Borrowed From Red State Playbook

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October 2, 2018

What Does Research Have to Say About LeBron’s New School?

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August 21, 2018

Are Private Schools Really Better?

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August 9, 2018

Dive Deep into the Latest School Voucher Battle

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June 19, 2018

Reviewer Finds Continuing Problems with WILL Charter School “Autonomy” Report

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August 11, 2016

Leading Educators Call for a New Direction for Education Reform, Focused on the Opportunity Gap

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April 25, 2013