Planning & Finance
This report provides the strategies and use of federal relief funds under ESSER used by the Hawai'i State Department of Education.
Strategies to Guide the Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding for Early Care and Education
This brief highlights some of the strategies states are pursuing to address equity in allocating their ARPA child care funds.
This brief analyzes the current state - as of September 2023 - of teacher and principal attrition in North Carolina public schools.
This report demonstrate how districts in California approached a range of educational challenges in ways that recognized
and explicitly addressed disparities in opportunities and outcomes, even in the midst of a debilitating pandemic.
This report provides results of in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground during the early pandemic years in six school systems.
This report presents school district leaders' views about staff turnover, hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020–2021 school year.
National test scores show the deleterious effects of the pandemic on student learning. In this blog, we explore the urban-rural divide in learning loss and recovery. Urban districts lost more ground in math, while rural districts lost more in reading. As districts recover, Latino students and economically disadvantaged students in rural areas are further left behind.
This toolkit provides school leaders with relevant information and data around ESSER expenditures and student outcomes.
Superintendents and school leaders navigated hundreds of impossible decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. They needed quick, accurate, and trusted information about their students’ academic well-being, but districts weren’t positioned to start new partnerships or data sharing agreements during these tumultuous months. Their research staff were frequently managing public health logistics and staffing data, too.
In April 2024, the RESTART Network hosted a two-day in-person forum to discuss accelerating student learning, fostering student connectedness, social emotional learning, and emerging research related to pandemic recovery. The forum brought together researchers, policymakers, leaders, and practitioners from across the country to share their knowledge, perspectives, and experiences.