Alex Spurrier
alspur.bsky.social
Alex Spurrier
@alspur.bsky.social
Education policy wonk working at Bellwether, using #rstats, and living in Louisville.
Issue 7 of Bellwether's Leading Indicator: AI in Education is here! In this issue, we cover:

🤖 Major "deep research" launches from several orgs
🔬 New studies on AI & education
🏫 Why content knowledge *still* matters – especially in the AI era

And more!

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The Leading Indicator: AI in Education Issue Seven | Bellwether
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February 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Alex Spurrier
Launching a 💵 State School Finance 💵 Newsletter at Bellwether. In the 1st issue: Amid federal chaos, what are governors saying about education funding? How are state revenues shaking out, and how might that affect schools?
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Leading Indicator: State Education Finance Issue One | Bellwether
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February 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
❤️‍🩹 Time to DTR ed tech "situationships"?
⏱️ 60 Minutes shines a spotlight on AI tutors
✂️ AI as a tool for cutting red tape?

…and much more in Issue 6 of Bellwether's Leading Indicator: AI in Education newsletter: bellwether.org/ai-newslette...
The Leading Indicator: Issue Six | Bellwether
When artificial intelligence (AI) comes up in the education sector, one of the most frequently asked questions we hear is: How should AI be used in schools? It’s a good question, but after this year’s...
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December 23, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Alex Spurrier
Find me this week at the PIE Net Summit with colleagues @minnekrista.bsky.social @alspur.bsky.social nerding out on state funding formula modeling techniques. Then you can tell me your thoughts on concentrated poverty weights, like Michigan's new policy. bellwether.org/blog/what-mi...
What Michigan’s New Concentrated Poverty Funding Can Teach Other States | Bellwether
High levels of school and community poverty can have a compounding effect on low-income students’ resource needs. To address systemic inequities in K-12 education funding at the state level, it may ...
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October 18, 2023 at 6:27 PM
Looking for some introductory briefs on K-12 school finance? 🤔

Bellwether just released an update to our "Splitting the Bill" series, includes 3 🆕 briefs on:

- How a "base" amount works 💰
- 💵 for econ. disadv. students
- Facilities 🏗

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Splitting the Bill: A Bellwether Series on Education Finance Equity | Bellwether
Bellwether Education Partners’ series Splitting the Bill: Understanding Education Finance Equity gives advocates a crash course in the fundamentals of education finance and in key questions to ask...
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October 11, 2023 at 3:29 PM
K-12 school funding is an important part of state+local budgets, but public data on how these dollars flow are often inaccessible in outdated, unusable, or incomplete formats —  such as PDFs.

It doesn't have to be this way.

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September 27, 2023 at 2:29 PM