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Funding Education Opportunity Newsletters

Funding Education Opportunity is a monthly newsletter curated by education policy analyst Jude Schwalbach which looks at the intersection of school finance and school choice to explore how education funding policy impacts students’ success.

Each month the Funding Education Opportunity newsletter keeps you up to date on K-12 education reforms making headlines across the country and provides an original analysis of school data, policy debates, and much more.

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  • Funding Education Opportunity: Study examines K-12 education spending, teachers’ salaries and benefit costs
    Funding Education Opportunity: Study examines K-12 education spending, teachers’ salaries and benefit costs

    All 50 states increased K-12 funding from 2002 to 2023, but inflation-adjusted average teacher salaries fell by 6.1% between 2002 and 2022,

    By Jude Schwalbach and Aaron Garth Smith
    November 20, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Grading and ranking every state’s open enrollment laws
    Funding Education Opportunity: Grading and ranking every state’s open enrollment laws

    Open enrollment policies are a vital part of improving students' options and outcomes.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    October 2, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: How states are reacting to the new federal tax-credit scholarship
    Funding Education Opportunity: How states are reacting to the new federal tax-credit scholarship

    Plus: The D.C. scholarship program, and school choice news from Kentucky and Wyoming.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    September 15, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Chronic absenteeism rates remain too high years after pandemic
    Funding Education Opportunity: Chronic absenteeism rates remain too high years after pandemic

    Plus, school choice news from New Hampshire and North Carolina.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    August 27, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: School districts slow to close schools despite losing students
    Funding Education Opportunity: School districts slow to close schools despite losing students

    Plus, school choice news, and the latest legal woes for Ohio and Wyoming’s private school scholarship programs.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    July 29, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Study finds more than 1.6 million students using K-12 open enrollment in 19 states
    Funding Education Opportunity: Study finds more than 1.6 million students using K-12 open enrollment in 19 states

    Plus, Louisiana’s private school scholarship expansion fails, and Nevada policymakers strike a deal to expand public school choice.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    June 17, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: The Trump administration’s role in supporting school choice
    Funding Education Opportunity: The Trump administration’s role in supporting school choice

    Plus, new school choice laws impact hundreds of thousands of students in Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, and South Carolina.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    May 20, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Trump gutted the U.S. Department of Education—what this means for taxpayers and the public
    Funding Education Opportunity: Trump gutted the U.S. Department of Education—what this means for taxpayers and the public

    Plus, Texas, Arkansas, New Hampshire, and North Dakota advance school choice proposals.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    April 22, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Data on 1.8 million students attending schools of their choice across six states
    Funding Education Opportunity: Data on 1.8 million students attending schools of their choice across six states

    Plus, Tennessee, Idaho and Wyoming recently passed strong school choice laws.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    March 19, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: The best K-12 open enrollment proposals of 2025
    Funding Education Opportunity: The best K-12 open enrollment proposals of 2025

    Plus, Tennessee lawmakers passed a robust school choice policy, and Texas and Idaho advanced bills.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    February 13, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Public schools closing as enrollments decline
    Funding Education Opportunity: Public schools closing as enrollments decline

    Plus, Tennessee, Wyoming, and South Carolina policymakers look to advance school choice proposals.

    By Jude Schwalbach and Aaron Garth Smith
    January 28, 2025

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Will Trump shutter the U.S. Department of Education?
    Funding Education Opportunity: Will Trump shutter the U.S. Department of Education?

    Plus, North Dakota and South Carolina policymakers look to advance school choice proposals.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    December 17, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: How the 2024 elections affected the K-12 reform landscape
    Funding Education Opportunity: How the 2024 elections affected the K-12 reform landscape

    Plus: Despite school choice ballot measures failing in three states, state policymakers prepare to advance school choice proposals in Texas and Tennessee.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    November 19, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Grading states’ K-12 open enrollment laws
    Funding Education Opportunity: Grading states’ K-12 open enrollment laws

    Plus: November ballot initiatives in five states and more.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    October 29, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness is not the answer to strengthening public education
    Funding Education Opportunity: Student loan forgiveness is not the answer to strengthening public education

    Plus: Education legislation news North Carolina, and more.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    September 17, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Why open enrollment transparency matters
    Funding Education Opportunity: Why open enrollment transparency matters

    Plus: Education legislation news from Texas, Florida, Arkansas and more.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    August 20, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Ghost students strip taxpayers’ pocketbooks bare
    Funding Education Opportunity: Ghost students strip taxpayers’ pocketbooks bare

    Plus: Education legislation news Pennsylvania, and more.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    July 23, 2024

  • Funding Education Opportunity: Many school districts need to reduce staff, consolidate
    Funding Education Opportunity: Many school districts need to reduce staff, consolidate

    Plus: Education spending data from all states, the latest school choice legislation, and more.

    By Jude Schwalbach
    June 18, 2024

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