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NEPC Review: A State-Level Perspective on School Spending and Educational Outcomes (Brookings Institution, September 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

December 12, 2025

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NEPC Review: ESA’s in Arizona: Q3 2025 Report (Common Sense Institute Arizona, October 2025)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

December 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program (School Choice Wisconsin, August 2025)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

October 28, 2025

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NEPC Review: Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success (National Governors Association, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Ryan Pfleger

October 14, 2025

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Move Over Project 2025. A New Blueprint for Public Education Has Arrived

Newsletter

September 23, 2025

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Kevin Welner and Robert Kim About Recent Changes to K-12 Federal Education Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Kevin G. Welner, and Robert Kim

September 18, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Factbook: 2025 Edition (EdChoice, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

September 4, 2025

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Reconciling Reconciliation: How the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Will Impact Children

Newsletter

August 21, 2025

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State Pre-K: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Yet to Come

Newsletter

August 14, 2025

What Would Be the Impact if Trump Succeeds in Defunding Programs Helping the Children of Migrant Families and Students Learning English? A Q&A.

Newsletter

July 17, 2025

Designing a Healthy and Healing Community School System in Michigan

Resource Document

Jonathon Sawyer, Regina Umpstead Pratel, Kathryn Wiley, Zainab Azim, Monica Obregon, Michelle Renée Valladares, Anna Deese, Kevin G. Welner, and Christopher Saldaña

July 10, 2025

Adequacy Without Equity: The Anatomy of a School Finance Lawsuit

Newsletter

July 3, 2025

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Pulling the Rug Out Beneath McKinney-Vento: How Block Granting Will Likely Remove Protections for Unhoused Children and Youth

Newsletter

June 26, 2025

Tackling Blocking: Trump’s Proposal for Fed Ed Funds and Research on Block Grants

Newsletter

June 24, 2025

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

NEPC Review

David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts

Policy Brief

Samuel E. Abrams

April 17, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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Attaching a Dollar Amount to the Culture Wars at School

Newsletter

March 27, 2025

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Defunding Fed Ed: Which States Have the Most to Lose?

Newsletter

March 13, 2025

Answering the Important Questions About Closing Schools

Newsletter

February 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Sally Nuamah

January 29, 2025

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NEPC Review: Resource Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Charter and District School Funding in Washington, D.C. (Bellwether, November 2024)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

January 21, 2025

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The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems

Policy Brief

David S. Knight and David E. DeMatthews

November 21, 2024

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Michael Gottfried About Chronic Absenteeism

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Michael A. Gottfried

November 14, 2024

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NEPC Review: Pennsylvania’s Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth (Commonwealth Foundation, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 12, 2024

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Austerity or Accountability? State Financial Interventions During Economic Downturns

Newsletter

October 24, 2024

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How Can States Make School Voucher Systems More Accountable, Accessible, and Transparent?

Policy Brief

Joshua Cowen and Ryan D. Nowak

October 3, 2024

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Federally Funded School Vouchers: Contrasting Party Views

Newsletter

September 19, 2024

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Webinar: Examining the Public Funding of Religious Schools

Newsletter

September 12, 2024

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NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

September 10, 2024

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Strengthening Oversight of Education Savings Account (ESA) Funding for Private and At-Home Schooling

Policy Brief

Luis A. Huerta and Trevor Baisden

September 5, 2024

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What Role Should the Federal Government Play in Education Policy?

Newsletter

August 22, 2024

When Schools Spend Less, Do Families Spend More? The Responsiveness of Supplementary Education Spending to Changes in the Local Schooling Context

Resource Document

Thomas Downes and Kieran Killeen

July 4, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Reality of Switchers (EdChoice, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

May 3, 2024

Pursuing an "Every Child Thrives" Public School System in North Carolina

Resource Document

Kathryn Wiley, Adam York, Tatianna Grant, Michelle Renée Valladares, Kevin G. Welner, Christopher Saldaña, Anna Deese, and John L. Myers

April 25, 2024

Taking Equal Opportunity Rhetoric Seriously: Envisioning and Costing-Out a P–12 Public School System in North Carolina Where Every Child Thrives: A Working Document

Resource Document

Christopher Saldaña, Anna Deese, Kevin G. Welner, Kathryn Wiley, Tatianna Grant, Adam York, Michelle Renée Valladares, and John L. Myers

April 25, 2024

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Project Estimates Price Tag for Equal Educational Opportunity in K-12

Newsletter

April 25, 2024

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