Nearly All States Have Significant Work To Do in Providing Transparent, Accessible Data on How Districts Spend School Funds
August 26, 2021 by EdTrust WASHINGTON — Only one state in the nation met The Education Trust’s guiding principles for equity-oriented school spending reports last year, according to a new national analysis by the ed-equity…
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Education Agenda Takes Shape
June 08, 2021 by Reid Setzer UPDATE 7/28/21: The Biden-Harris administration has released this fact sheet detailing their educational equity policy goals, and The Education Trust is supportive of several priorities detailed within. We are happy…
How The American Rescue Plan Can Help States Advance Educational Equity
June 02, 2021 by Allison Rose Socol, Ph.D. The federal government has made an unprecedented investment in education. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act provides almost $130 billion for education, and the amount of funding each state and…
Let’s Not Forget About English Learners: Targeting Resources From the American Rescue Plan for Their Needs
May 26, 2021 by Terra Wallin, Rosario Quiroz Villarreal, Roxanne Garza School districts are currently faced with a tremendous opportunity: to determine how to use over $125 billion of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act to ensure students…
Action Guide: Targeting Resources from the American Rescue Plan to Address the Needs of English Learners
May 26, 2021 by The Next100, UnidosUS, EdTrust For more than 15 months, students, families, and educators across the country have been adjusting to new ways of…
Recommendations for State Leaders to Advance Equity Using Funds from the American Rescue Plan
May 18, 2021 by EdTrust The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted education for all students, but has hit students from vulnerable and systemically neglected populations…
How the American Rescue Plan Can Transform School Districts. The Time to Act Is Now.
May 06, 2021 by Terra Wallin The federal government has just made an unprecedented investment in education. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act provides almost $125 billion for education, and the vast majority of that funding…
5 Questions to Ask Districts About How They Will Use New Federal Funding to Support Students
May 06, 2021 by EdTrust The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act provides almost $125 billion for education, including at least $109 billion that goes…
Re-Imagining Outcomes-Based Funding
April 01, 2021 by Kayla C. Elliott, Lawrence Haynes, Tiffany Jones College students, staff, and faculty all across the country are demanding greater racial and socioeconomic justice in higher education,…