Sustained and upgraded.
SPEND is a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to strengthening the nation’s education finance data ecosystem.
Our work aims to make these essential data more accurate, comparable, timely, and accessible, building a stronger public data utility for the field.
Mission
We are securing the future of critical national datasets while modernizing the infrastructure behind them. We provide the objective foundation necessary for effective governance, robust research, and evidence-based decision-making in public education.
Explore the Education Data AtlasAnalysis and updates from the SPEND team, published on our Substack.
Substack
For years, advocates have pushed to report school-level spending per pupil. What those figures can and cannot show about how resources reach students.
Read on Substack: What Do School-Level Expenditures Really Tell Us? (opens in a new tab)Substack
What researchers say they need from national education finance data, and how those needs shape what SPEND builds next.
Read on Substack: Building the Data Researchers Actually Need (opens in a new tab)Substack
Billions of federal dollars move through datasets and formulas that few people ever see. Why we set out to map that system in one place.
Read on Substack: Mapping the Invisible Machine: Why We Built the Education Data Atlas (opens in a new tab)Stay connected with SPEND and follow our work as it develops.