This brief offers state leaders and advocates ideas for innovative practices and strategies that can address the needs of children in preschool and early elementary grades.

This report shares findings that student absences and staff shortages have sidelined the adoption of academic acceleration strategies and that the pandemic has shifted district priorities, reshaping the work of superintendents and senior administrators.

This report examines the third American School District Panel (ASDP) survey from June 2021 to identify the changes districts were making to their academic and nonacademic offerings in the 2021-2022 school year. The researchers also analyzed whether parental demands influenced the changes districts made.

This report provides trends, examples, and promising practices of how state education agencies used ESSER funds to to address chronic absenteeism. It highlights four common areas of investment: data and early warning systems, reengagement of chronically absent students, family engagement, and wraparound supports.

This report considers how lessons learned during the pandemic can lead to transformative and lasting shifts in the landscape of K-12 education.

This news article reports on the distribution of ESSER funds and how certain districts and schools utilized the grants to meet specific school needs.

This news article explores how school districts are having to make cuts or adjust programs and staffing as federal pandemic relief funds are set to expire in the fall.

This blog discusses the ESSER Funding Cliff Toolkit developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI).

This report highlights research that suggests that ESSER funds played a role in improving academic outcomes in low-income districts during school year 2022-2023.