#927: How to shrink schools and school districts as enrollment declines, with Marguerite Roza
- Author
- Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Published
- Wed 03 Jul 2024
- Episode Link
- None
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Marguerite Roza, the director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, joins Mike and David to discuss how schools and school systems can downsize in response to declining enrollment. Then, on the Research Minute, Adam examines a new study investigating the academic impacts of ESSER funding, the largest one-time federal investment in public schools in history.
Recommended content:
- “The math of school closures: How district leaders should navigate the perfect storm of budget shortfalls and declining student enrollment” —Marguerite Roza & Aashish Dhammani, The 74
- “Schools will have to start closing again” —Michael Petrilli, Wall Street Journal
- “Doing educational equity right: School closures” —Michael Petrilli, Fordham Institute
- Dan Goldhaber and Grace Falken, “ESSER and student achievement: Assessing the impacts of the largest one-time federal investment in K12 schools,” CALDER (June 2024).
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