Planning & Finance
This report provides updates on the well-being of students, as well as indicators of the overall health of the education system, including data on teachers, enrollment, and finances.
This blog summarizes the recent School District Spending of American Rescue Plan report which details and analyzes the survey responses about how school systems across the country are utilizing ARP funds in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report concludes research on five school systems to reveal the academic, social, and political challenges posed by the pandemic and what leaders and their staff are doing to address student learning loss.
This journal article analyzes how school districts handled the shift to special education remote learning.
This article explores the variations in pandemic-driven disenrollment from public schools.
This report offers systemic actions states can take to modernize K-12 education systems to center student learning.
On October 3, 2023, the RESTART Network hosted the 2023 Virtual National Symposium featuring the National Association of State Boards of Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The webinar included presentations from researchers and policy leaders who are leading efforts to advance academic recovery.
By Kylie Klein, Senior Researcher & RESTART National Network Lead
In this brief, an analysis is conducted on the patterns of allocation, spending, and intended investments of money provided to school
districts in North Carolina by the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.
Three years ago, schools across the country shut their doors and scrambled to continue student learning online, all with the goal of stopping the spread of COVID-19. This shift to remote learning had dire unintended consequences: lost learning time, chronic absenteeism, and losing students to drop out – for some groups of students far worse than others. In doing so, inequities in our public education system that were already glaring have now become far worse.