Edunomics Lab is a Georgetown University research center exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions to inform education policy and practice.

Registration is now open for our fall 2022 cohort, with two options for in-person

Fiscal cliff

+ inflationary raises

+ recession

+ enrollment declines

= looming challenges for school finances

Marguerite Roza asks (and offers some answers on), “What goes wrong when some school board members don’t understand district finances?”

This new tool estimates pandemic-related learning losses and recovery costs for more than 8,000 school districts across the country.

Read our related analysis.

A 4-part virtual workshop designed to build and hone school board members’ strategic finance skills. Sept. 16, 23, 30 & Oct. 7, 12-2pm ET.

Use our dashboard to explore ESSER 3 spending by district or download an entire state’s data. We have data for 47 states so far…

Research & Focus Areas

Edunomics Lab provides timely, relevant and actionable analysis of education finance policy and resource allocation strategy and decisions. Our research and modeling projects are designed to give policymakers and education leaders the evidence-based resources they need to effectively deploy finite resources for the betterment of education.

Compensation, Benefits & Pensions

District Resource Allocation

Educational Productivity

Financial Transparency

Higher Education

Innovation & Technology

K-12 Financial Landscape

NERD$

State Finance Policy

School-Level Resource Use

Student-Based Allocation

Training in Ed Finance