10 PREDICTIONS FOR...
Education Finance
Forecasts on the dominant themes, challenges, and opportunities in K-12 school finance over the next decade. Read our essay series as a flipbook or blog!
Predictions Magazine
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Predictions Blog
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Intro: 10 Years of Allovue
Allovue’s vision is that every dollar works for every student. I invite you to join us in the effort for the next decade. A thriving public education system will require concerted efforts in every sphere of influence—we must work together to protect and elevate public education.
1. Teacher Compensation
If I had to choose one issue that will dominate ed finance discourse over the next decade, it’s teacher compensation. Teacher compensation is related to several challenges plaguing K-12 education: teacher shortages, teacher recruitment and retention, pension debt, resource equity, and funding adequacy.
2. Declining Enrollment
For the first time in decades, enrollment in K-12 public schools is precipitously declining: estimated public school enrollment for 2023 was a million students short of 2019 levels; about a 2% drop. Where have all the students gone, and what are the consequences of a shrinking student population?
Intro: 10 Years of Allovue
Allovue’s vision is that every dollar works for every student. I invite you to join us in the effort for the next decade. A thriving public education system will require concerted efforts in every sphere of influence—we must work together to protect and elevate public education.
1. Teacher Compensation
If I had to choose one issue that will dominate ed finance discourse over the next decade, it’s teacher compensation. Teacher compensation is related to several challenges plaguing K-12 education: teacher shortages, teacher recruitment and retention, pension debt, resource equity, and funding adequacy.
2. Declining Enrollment
For the first time in decades, enrollment in K-12 public schools is precipitously declining: estimated public school enrollment for 2023 was a million students short of 2019 levels; about a 2% drop. Where have all the students gone, and what are the consequences of a shrinking student population?
3. Pension Debt & Reform
The current public school pension system is fiscally unsustainable in many states, contributing to depressed wages and presenting a major threat to school budgets. Let's talk about the +$600 billion budget cut happening to public schools.
4. The Great Unbundling
If districts unbundle resources and programming, they can offer a wider range of curated educational choices for students within the public school system, rather than requiring them to seek choices elsewhere.
5. The Future of EdTech
The workflow and tools for managing the flow of money, people, time, and supplies in schools remain stubbornly stuck in decades-old tech. What's next?
3. Pension Debt & Reform
The current public school pension system is fiscally unsustainable in many states, contributing to depressed wages and presenting a major threat to school budgets. Let's talk about the +$600 billion budget cut happening to public schools.
4. The Great Unbundling
If districts unbundle resources and programming, they can offer a wider range of curated educational choices for students within the public school system, rather than requiring them to seek choices elsewhere.
5. The Future of EdTech
The workflow and tools for managing the flow of money, people, time, and supplies in schools remain stubbornly stuck in decades-old tech. What's next?