Dr. Kaitlyn Brennan

Dear Colleagues:

July 1 was supposed to be “money-drop day.” Instead, district CFOs opened their inboxes to a four-sentence memo from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announcing that six big...

Dear Colleagues:

This Washington Update arrives at a moment when the policy landscape around education finance, curriculum rights, and pandemic recovery remains in flux. Senate Republicans’ efforts to...

Dear Colleagues:

As summer enters the chat, Congress and federal agencies are moving forward with a flurry of decisions that will reshape everything from civil rights enforcement to funding for teacher...

Dear Colleagues:

The Administration’s FY 2026 budget request offers one of the clearest signals yet about how federal priorities are shifting when it comes to education. While some of us expected...