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Read recommendations designed to help state leaders use block grants to consistently and reliably serve students and improve outcomes.

These Spotlight resources and events aim to assist educators with managing funds to boost teacher compensation, improve outcomes for students who are and have been underserved, address learning loss, and more.

Host Jason Willis talks with Pedro Salcido (Los Angeles Unified School District) and Jessenia Reyes (Catalyst California) about the Student Equity Need Index (SENI), a research-based index that uses comprehensive indicators to rank school needs for more equitable funding distribution.

Host Jason Willis talks with school finance and policy veteran Carrie Hahnel about school closures and consolidations, delving into current factors that could lead to more closures and data about the disproportionate impact on different student populations.

The New Mexico Public Education Department is delivering carefully crafted assistance to its local education agencies—89 school districts and 57 state-authorized charter schools—to create a road map for supporting students most in need. The effort is delivering promising results. 

In this blog post, WestEd’s Dana Grayson Chambers and Jason Willis walk through two approaches that can help implement and sustain increased teacher compensation.

Community colleges can serve as engines of economic recovery for California and as pathways to greater opportunity for students from communities hit hardest by the pandemic.

Now available for state and local education agency leaders working to conduct a meaningful resource allocation review: A suggested, systematized approach developed by the Region 15 Comprehensive Center​.

Experts from the Region 15 Comprehensive Center discuss what they have learned about creating processes that help leaders examine the connection between resource allocation and academic outcomes.

The resources in this Spotlight are aimed at educators in rural communities, supporting rural science teachers, considering 4-day school weeks in one rural community; and a podcast that focuses on the transformation of a small rural school district that’s gotten attention from education leaders all around the world.