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The Federal Tax Credit Program Is Not Offering Free Money for States

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

October 8, 2026

Sometimes Bad Ideas in Education Go Away. Did This One?

Newsletter

September 22, 2026

It’s Hard to Justify This Higher Ed Spending Gap. So Why Does It Persist?

Newsletter

September 17, 2026

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Pre-K’s Growth Spurt: Five Things to Know Now

Newsletter

August 20, 2026

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How Can States Improve Multilingual Learner Education?

Newsletter

July 16, 2026

NEPC Review: The Economic Impact from Colorado’s Choice to Participate in the “Education Freedom Tax Credit” Provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Common Sense Institute Colorado, March 2026)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

May 21, 2026

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Michael Rebell and Luisa Sanchez About the Systemic Deficiencies in Kentucky’s Education System

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Michael A. Rebell

April 23, 2026

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Studying the First Year of Trump’s Second Term: The Renewed Importance of Participatory Governance

Policy Brief

Derek Gottlieb

April 21, 2026

Is Your State Shortchanging Public Schools?

Newsletter

March 24, 2026

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The Cycle of Disinvestment in Public Schools: How Public-School Criticism Drives Policy and Disinvestment

Policy Brief

Huriya Jabbar and Daniel Espinoza

March 3, 2026

NEPC Review: Estimating the Long-Run Impact of a Universal ESA Program in Mississippi (EdChoice, December 2025)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

February 25, 2026

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Advancing LCFF Equity and Accountability

Policy Memo

Michelle Renée Valladares, Jonathon Sawyer, and Kevin G. Welner

February 19, 2026

This New Pre-K Policy May Be Having Growing Pains

Newsletter

February 10, 2026

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NEPC’s Most Popular Newsletters of 2025

Newsletter

January 20, 2026

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Roseann Liu and David Backer About School Finance

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Roseann Liu, and David Backer

January 13, 2026

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NEPC Review: A State-Level Perspective on School Spending and Educational Outcomes (Brookings Institution, September 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

December 12, 2025

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NEPC Review: ESA’s in Arizona: Q3 2025 Report (Common Sense Institute Arizona, October 2025)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

December 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program (School Choice Wisconsin, August 2025)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

October 28, 2025

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NEPC Review: Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success (National Governors Association, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Ryan Pfleger

October 14, 2025

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Move Over Project 2025. A New Blueprint for Public Education Has Arrived

Newsletter

September 23, 2025

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Kevin Welner and Robert Kim About Recent Changes to K-12 Federal Education Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Kevin G. Welner, and Robert Kim

September 18, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Factbook: 2025 Edition (EdChoice, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

September 4, 2025

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Reconciling Reconciliation: How the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Will Impact Children

Newsletter

August 21, 2025

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State Pre-K: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Yet to Come

Newsletter

August 14, 2025

What Would Be the Impact if Trump Succeeds in Defunding Programs Helping the Children of Migrant Families and Students Learning English? A Q&A.

Newsletter

July 17, 2025

Designing a Healthy and Healing Community School System in Michigan

Resource Document

Jonathon Sawyer, Regina Umpstead Pratel, Kathryn Wiley, Zainab Azim, Monica Obregon, Michelle Renée Valladares, Anna Deese, Kevin G. Welner, and Christopher Saldaña

July 10, 2025

Adequacy Without Equity: The Anatomy of a School Finance Lawsuit

Newsletter

July 3, 2025

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Pulling the Rug Out Beneath McKinney-Vento: How Block Granting Will Likely Remove Protections for Unhoused Children and Youth

Newsletter

June 26, 2025

Tackling Blocking: Trump’s Proposal for Fed Ed Funds and Research on Block Grants

Newsletter

June 24, 2025

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NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

NEPC Review

David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts

Policy Brief

Samuel E. Abrams

April 17, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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Attaching a Dollar Amount to the Culture Wars at School

Newsletter

March 27, 2025

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Defunding Fed Ed: Which States Have the Most to Lose?

Newsletter

March 13, 2025

Answering the Important Questions About Closing Schools

Newsletter

February 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Sally Nuamah

January 29, 2025

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NEPC Review: Resource Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Charter and District School Funding in Washington, D.C. (Bellwether, November 2024)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

January 21, 2025

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