Jess Gartner
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Founder of @AllovueBalance. Mother of #edfintech. Lover of #tacos. Nomad for now. @DarwinHatesTravel (IG) @[email protected] @jessgartner.bsky.social
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Joined May 2009
Officially moving to #Seattle this weekend after 15+ months and +6K miles #OnTheRoad. Let's be friends!
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We also know ARP issuance was very delayed in FY21 so, our estimate for FY21 was slightly high and the estimate for FY22 was slightly low but that is probably the result of doubling up the delayed FY21 dollars in FY22; which means ESSER spending still shakes out about the same 🙃
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Reminder of our forecast for how this would play out back in January 2020-- we assumed a *very* conservative YoY 2% uptick for inflation and still came pretty darn close. #MagicNumbers #YayMath
I can't wait for all the headlines about the big increase of FY22 K-12 spending that completely fail to mention that the increase is primarily driven by the ESSER dollars that previous headlines fretted were unspent...
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I can't wait for all the headlines about the big increase of FY22 K-12 spending that completely fail to mention that the increase is primarily driven by the ESSER dollars that previous headlines fretted were unspent...
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Every Republican and every single Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives just voted to pass a weighted student funding formula. Should the Senate follow, low income, ELL, and SpEd students will be meaningfully recognized in the way the state funds public schools.
House Bill 4130 has been introduced. The bill would create the “Mississippi Student Funding Formula” to provide funding mechanism for public schools. To read the bill, visit https://t.co/n80DhE7DUz.
#msleg
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Our 2nd Annual Education Finance Survey is available now! Really giving new meaning to "read it and weep" to be honest but we've all got our work cut out for us in the ed finance world!
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The second annual Allovue Education Finance Survey examines educators' views about school funding.
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We’re excited to announce that we have completed the acquisition of @AllovueBalance, a leading provider of #K12 financial budgeting and planning software in the U.S. Read the full details on this exciting announcement here >> https://t.co/To8xzamxlm
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Imagine having “nine figures” to invest in Baltimore and you decide the best use of your money “to help” is to buy a media outlet. Not funding business incubators, helping commercialize tech out of research institutions, or creating a foundation to support community development.
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So excited abt this work from 2 board members of our soon-to-launch org. #2 in thread is key: "[the money matters debate] is not very useful for policy. So in this paper we ask: It depends on what? We focus on *what* the money is spent on and *for whom* it is spent." Worth a read
🚨🧵📜@davidfromterra, Julien Lafortune and I have a new wp! Perhaps the longest-standing debate in education is on whether money matters. Esp. in the case of capital (building /renovating school facilities), conflicting results have led scholars to conclude that “it depends.”
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One of the admins in my elementary school had this thumbtacked above her desk and I think about it all the time. Don't ask me why I remember this from, at least, 23 years ago; almost too on the nose with this story.
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Tap dancing on the grave of DEI while women and people of color are wildly overlooked and under funded in tech is not a good look tbh.
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Middle school teachers are extremely strong individuals.
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Kind of feels like burying the lede when 3 years ago we were missing a MILLION kids, then a quarter million— maybe something like… “95% of students have returned to school since pandemic enrollment depression”
"Since the pandemic first upended American education, an estimated 50,000 students are still missing from any kind of U.S. school." How many students are still missing from American schools? Here's what the data says | AP News
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Thinking back to 18 months ago when I couldn't convince people to worry less about teacher shortages and to think a little more about the possibility of looming budget tightening and/or loosening labor markets.
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Does anyone have a great handy-man/GC in Seattle? My tactic of using command strips to hang a light fixture when I couldn't drill into the wall only lasted for 2 days 🫠 Time to bring in a professional.
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If schools are saying "well it was nice to have summer programs, tutors, and HVAC filters for a little while..." please ask yourself why this is being framed as a budgeting issue instead of funding issue.
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"If you're struggling to get communities to engage with the budget-- what are you presenting as the budget? Focus with parents and teachers has to be about how we are investing in these goals for their students." 🙌🏼
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Conflating these narratives is problematic. We must have nuanced conversations about the real drivers of short, medium, and long-term school district budget woes. It's far too convenient to blame ESSER for fiscal challenges that are decades in the making.
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This district also still has $85M "left." You guessed it: that money is functionally SPENT (on non-recurring expenses). CFO already has Plan A, B, and C for expending those funds. Just because checks haven't been cut, doesn't mean money is "available."
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I know it often seems like a lot of money in aggregate, but the reality is that for most districts, in the event of an economic catastrophe, these funds are usually the equivalent of 3-6 months of operating funds. Yet another case where #DenominatorsMatter
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