Financial Transparency

The new ESSA per-pupil expenditure (PPE) reporting requirement has the potential to have profoundly important effects on school systems, as we will now be able to compare spending and outcomes by school—an incredibly important unit of change. Given these challenges in rural states, this new Financial Transparency Community of Practice (CoP) will focus specifically on meeting the needs of rural, less-populated states. Specifically, the work will:

(1) help states develop financial data collection plans, (2) enable the co-creation of communication strategies specifically targeted for their districts about the financial transparency requirement and data uses, and (3) design financial systems that are effective for all districts, including those in rural settings.

wdt_ID	pagename	Category	Title	Description
340	Financial Transparency	CoP Subject Matter Expert Resources:	BSCP Center Financial Transparency Resources	BSCP Center Financial Transparency Resources: The Building State Capacity and Productivity Center has published numerous papers related to different aspects of implementing the requirement, including a new data visualization checklist.
341	Financial Transparency	CoP Subject Matter Expert Resources:	Edunomics Financial Transparency Page	Edunomics Financial Transparency Page: The Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University has published extensively on the topic of financial transparency and convenes a working group of 40+ state agencies related to the requirement. All papers, tools, and past recorded webinars are available on this website.
342	Financial Transparency	CoP Subject Matter Expert Resources:	State Support Network Financial Transparency and Reporting Tool	State Support Network Financial Transparency and Reporting Tool: This tool can help districts meet the ESSA reporting requirements by identifying and analyzing school level expenditure data, specifically expenditures coded to the central office.
343	Financial Transparency	CoP Subject Matter Expert Resources:	Transparent School-by-School Spending	Transparent School-by-School Spending: This article provides districts with a series of questions to explore in the school spending data.
344	Financial Transparency	CoP Subject Matter Expert Resources:	Equipping School Leaders to Spend Wisely	Equipping School Leaders to Spend Wisely: This article provides state leadership, specifically state board members, with important information related to the spending requirement and what states can do to prepare.

Financial Transparency

Communities of Practice