As we embark on the first full year of schooling during the global Covid-19 pandemic, one thing is clear: America’s K-12 education system is in crisis. It is time to bring an emergency mindset to education funding by doing everything in our power to not let the 2020-2021 school year lead to irreversible learning losses for a whole generation of students.

In this brief, we identify the core principles and make policy recommendations for funding each mode of learning, with an eye toward empowering parents, strengthening new and existing systems and maintaining flexibility and strong academic outcomes.

The companion brief, Measure Everything: Emergency Data Collection in a National Crisis, can be found here.