ERIC Number: ED615294
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 12
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The K-12 Pandemic Budget and Staffing Crises Have Not Panned Out - Yet: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey. Data Note: Insights from the American Educator Panels. Research Report. RR-A956-3
Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L.
RAND Corporation
This report presents school district leaders' views about staff turnover, hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Based on the survey responses of 292 district leaders from the American School District Panel (ASDP), the authors found that teacher and principal turnover had not increased substantially beyond pre-pandemic rates in most districts. They also found that a majority of school districts have increased or are trying to increase their number of staff--especially for substitute teachers and mental health staff--for the 2021-2022 school year. District leaders also reported budget concerns. Four in ten district leaders anticipate a fiscal cliff around the time coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) federal aid expires in September 2024, and over half of the districts that anticipate a funding increase from federal stimulus funds are concerned about their ability to spend the money, even though virtually all district leaders said that they have some level of discretion in how to spend those funds. Although districts' reported impacts have not led to much-feared budget and staffing crises for their school districts, these survey findings suggest systemic problems that could outlast the COVID-19 pandemic. [For a related report, "Technical Documentation for the Third American School District Panel Survey. Research Report. RR-A956-6," see ED615291.]
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten, COVID-19, Pandemics, Labor Turnover, Principals, Budgets, Administrator Surveys, Federal Aid, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Teacher Retirement, Faculty Mobility, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Suburbs, Ethnicity, Poverty, School District Wealth, Racial Composition, Minority Group Students, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Superintendents, Retrenchment, Funding Formulas, Immunization Programs, Teacher Selection, School Personnel, National Surveys, Federal Legislation
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: RAND Education and Labor
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act 2020
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