Quality Counts

Quality Counts is Education Week's annual report on state-level efforts to improve public education.

First Installment:

Quality Counts 2018: Grading the States

This 22nd edition of Quality Counts, an annual state-by-state assessment of public education, paints a portrait of middling performance overall with patches of high achievement, along with perennial struggles to improve on the part of states mired at the bottom. This is the first of three data-driven Quality Counts packages this year exploring distinct aspects of the performance of America's public schools.

Second Installment:

Quality Counts 2018: School Finance

Education Week puts the nation's K-12 finance performance under the microscope in this second installment of Quality Counts 2018, looking at how much gets spent state by state, and how fairly it's divvied up."

From the report:

Prior Years

2017: Building in ESSA's K-12 Foundation

2016: Called to Account

2015: Preparing to Launch

2014: District Disruption & Revival

2013: Code of Conduct

2012: The Global Challenge

2011: Uncertain Forecast

2010: Fresh Course, Swift Current

2009: Portrait of a Population

2008: Tapping Into Teaching

2007: From Cradle to Career

2006: Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards Based Education

2005: No Small Change, Targeting Money Toward Student Performance

2004: Count Me In: Special Education in an Era of Standards

2003: "If I Can't Learn From You"

2002: Building Blocks for Success

2001: A Better Balance

2000: Who Should Teach?

1999: Rewarding Results, Punishing Failure

1998: The Urban Challenge: Public Education in the 50 States

Quality Counts '97

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School Funding Data Shine a Bright Light on States' Priorities

This special Quality Counts report on school finance digs into how much the nation and the states spend on K-12 and how equitably that public education money is distributed.

June 6, 2018 – Education Week

26 States Earn 'F' Grade on School Spending in Education Week Analysis

Education Week's latest analysis points to a funding hole as education competes with other state spending priorities and political obstacles.

June 6, 2018 – Education Week

A User's Guide to the Grading and Methodology

Here's a quick and easy guide to the grading scale and each of the indicators that go into making up the 50-state grades for school finance.

June 6, 2018 – Education Week

Equity in K-12 Funding More Complex Than Just Dollars

School finance experts and civil rights advocates increasingly focus on how school aid is distributed under state funding formulas, not simply on funding levels.

June 6, 2018 – Education Week