Tools & Publications

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  August 16, 2022

  How to Enable Transformational Change in K-12 School Districts

  "Do Now, Build Toward" (DNBT) is a sustainable approach to transformation that builds on research, incorporates practical limitations, and uses a community-driven, iterative framework. More »

  Publications Tools District Leaders Equity Funding & Portfolio Learn Assess Explore Take Action Learn More
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  May 31, 2022

  How implementing a "Continuous Improvement ROI" model can help districts maximize ESSER outcomes

  Continuous improvement ROI is a way to ensure effective and equitable allocation of ESSER funds even when the timeline of spend, and our system’s capacity, are limited More »

  Publications Tools Videos COVID-19 District Leaders Assess
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  April 14, 2021

  States Start Here

  Childrens' learning has been massively disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the need for more opportunities for differentiated, high-quality learning, stronger relationships... More »

  Publications COVID-19 School Design State Leaders States
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  January 30, 2020

  ERS Briefing: Supporting School Turnaround

  Read the Briefing In turnaround schools, traditional approaches to school improvement (and some say, even the recent seven billion dollar federal investment in school improvement)... More »

  Publications ESSA District Leaders School Design Turnaround
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  November 08, 2018

  Resource Equity: A Primer for State Boards of Education

  At the 2018 NASBE annual conference, Karen Hawley Miles presented on Strategies to Foster Resource Equity to an audience of about 100 state leaders More »

  Equity State Leaders States
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  October 01, 2018

  What is Resource Equity?

  In this working paper, we've identified many - often hidden - "dimensions of equity," and we explain how each links to student outcomes, identify typical sources of inequities within... More »

  Publications ESSA District Leaders Equity
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  June 05, 2018

  Addressing the Teacher Labor Market Challenge in Arizona

  Arizona spends less on K-12 education than almost every other state. But adding resources on top of the current system is likely an ineffective solution. More »

  Presentations ESSA Equity State Leaders
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  March 6, 2018

  Toolkit: Advancing Equitable School Funding under ESSA

  The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states new financial transparency tools to better understand and become leaders for resource equity, but only if they are used well. These... More »

  Presentations ESSA State Leaders States
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  August 01, 2017

  School Finance Packet for National Council of State Legislators (NCSL) Annual Meeting

  State legislators face ever-increasing challenges around school finance—scarce revenues, lawsuits, new mandated reporting, and so on. These resources will demystify some of these complex... More »

  Tools District Leaders States
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  November 10, 2016

  ERS Comments on ESSA Supplement, Not Supplant Regulation

  Our comments target strategies that promote both equity and excellence—in other words, how many resources schools receive and how well they use them. We argue that while it is indeed... More »

  ESSA Publications State Leaders
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  October 06, 2016

  ESSA Financial Reporting Requirement

  Under ESSA, districts must report per-pupil spending at the LEA and school level using actual salary data. This new level of financial transparency aims to promote equity across schools.... More »

  ESSA Publications District Leaders State Leaders
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  September 2016

  7 Tenets for Sustainable School Turnaround

  A collaboration between Center for American Progress and Education Resource Strategies on the 7 tenets for states to empower districts to become agents of change in school turnaround. More »

  Publications ESSA State Leaders Turnaround
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  February 2, 2017

  A Vision for Partnership Between Districts and States

  Under ESSA, state education agencies have the opportunity to establish a new vision for partnership with districts - one based on their powers to allocate, regulate, and importantly,... More »

  Publications District Leaders State Leaders States
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  November 2015

  A New Vision of Partnership Between Districts and States [Video]

  In this video, school district leaders from New York State share their plans for reallocating resources to meet student needs, and their vision for the state to help them succeed. More »

  Videos States
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  February 2015

  Six Opportunities to Restructure Education Resources in Georgia

  From 2012 to 2013, ERS partnered with the Georgia Department of Education to address how the state and a few districts manage their resources. These reports highlight three opportunities... More »

  Presentations Funding & Portfolio Student-Based Budgeting State Leaders States
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  December 2014

  Spinning Straw into Gold

  K–12 education resources are often allocated non-strategically, with schools spending time and money on activities that have little relationship to student outcomes. States can help... More »

  Publications State Leaders School Support & Accountability States
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  June 7, 2011

  Restructuring Resources for High-Performing Schools

  Millions of education dollars are trapped each year. At this time of continued budget shortfalls when every dollar spent on education must yield maximum returns in student... More »

  Publications Special Education State Leaders States
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  April 26, 2010

  State Role in Districts Doing More with Less

  ERS articulates for states what we know about district resource use and how states’ policies can best help district efforts. ERS Director Don Hovey gave this presentation in Miami at the... More »

  Presentations State Leaders States