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K-12 Education

Funding, strategy, and system design for K-12 leaders to help support every student in their classroom.

Education Reform, Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education, Public Charter Schools

Three Questions Every State Leader Should Be Working Through Right Now

Afton News, Effective Governance, Funding Policy, K-12 Education

We’ve Done This Before: What Portfolio Districts Can Teach States About Building School Choice Systems

Afton News, Finance Best Practices, Financial Sustainability, Funding Policy, K-12 Education

The Five Foundations of Sustainable School Finance

Afton News, K-12 Education

Preserving The Core: A Budget Process for Constrained Times

The Coming Education Marketplace: How Today’s Choices Will Shape Tomorrow’s Opportunities

Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education

Policy Implications: Designing for a Family-Centered System

Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education

The Path to Convergence: How Historical Circumstances Are Giving Way to Strategic Alignment

Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education

Two Systems, One Family: The Lived Reality of America’s Educational Divide

Effective Governance, Funding Policy, K-12 Education

An Underfunded Mandate

Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education, Noteworthy News, Public Charter Schools, Workforce Development

2024 Impact Report

Effective Governance, Funding Policy, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Reimagining the School Funding Adequacy Study

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

Fiscal Cliff Pressures – the Impact of ‘the Six Es’ on District Budgets

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

Affording Quality Schools – Solutions and Remedies 1 and 2: Reinventing Funding Formulas and Services with Costs That Seem Fixed

Effective Governance, K-12 Education

If You’re Going To Close Schools, Do It This Way

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

North Chicago CUSD 187: Progress after Injustice

Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

Navigating Uncertainty and Preparing for the Education Fiscal Cliff

Funding Policy, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

ESSER: Our Latest Window to Unjust Public Education Funding

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Planning for “Re-Entry”: What public school systems can learn from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Effective Governance, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Deriving Value from ESSA’s Site-Based Expenditure Reporting

Effective Governance, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Defining “Principal Autonomy”

Effective Governance, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Afton Provides Recommendations for State Education Agencies on ESSA Financial Transparency Requirement

Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education, Workforce Development

Afton Facilitates Expert Panel on Sustaining Innovation at iNACOL 2017

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

Affording Quality Schools – Remedies 5, 6, and 7: Curb Agreements That Inflate Costs As Enrollment Declines

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

Affording Quality Schools – Remedies 3 and 4: Infrastructure Changes and Redistricting

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

How Districts Can Afford High Quality Schools Despite Enrollment Decline: Defining The Problem

Effective Governance, Financial Sustainability, K-12 Education

How Districts Can Afford High Quality Schools, Despite Enrollment Decline: Defining the Problem

Effective Governance, K-12 Education, Resource Equity

Afton Leads Discussion on New ESSA Financial Transparency Requirements