A Little Transparency Goes a Long Way

A Little Transparency Goes a Long Way. Maybe.

ERS contributes to an Education Week roundtable discussion on funding equity

Is the United States on the right track in how it funds education? As some provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) take full effect this fall, Education Week convened a panel of experts - including ERS - to explore equity in funding. Karen Hawley Miles and Jonathan Travers weighed in on how the requirement to report per-pupil funding levels can best increase transparency and help students.

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School Finance Toolkit

Resources for state legislators

ESSA regulations mean states have new opportunities to support low-performing schools. We've gathered an array of resources to help s tate legislators navigate the ever-increasing challenges around school finance, such as scarce revenue, lawsuits, new mandated reporting, and more.

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Professional Learning
Self-Assessment

Does your professional learning strategy fuel teacher and student growth?

ERS studied four leading-edge school systems that have fundamentally redesigned professional learning and have seen student growth. This short online self-assessment allows education leaders to compare their practices to those systems, focused in the areas of curriculum, collaboration, and feedback. The tool then provides a set of tailored next steps and examples from around the country.

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Because our children deserve more than a few great schools.

Ensuring college and career readiness for all students, especially lower-income students and students of color, requires redesigning school systems to enable new ways of organizing schools for student and teacher learning. School System 20/20 is our vision for transforming school systems so every school succeeds for every student, because of the system - not in spite of it.

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Education Resource Strategies (ERS ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming how urban school systems organize resources - people, time, and money - so that every school succeeds for every student.