In a new report package How States Protect Funding for K-12 Public Schools, EdChoice Director of Fiscal Research & Education Center Martin Lueken, along with EdChoice fellow and associate professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, James Shuls, explore state-by-state funding protections for public schools and their benefits and drawbacks.

This research provides education reform stakeholders with valuable perspectives on how  expanding choice polices interact with funding protections such as declining enrollment and funding guarantees, also known as hold harmless provisions, within their states.

The second paper, How States Protect Funding for K-12 Public Schools: A summary of state policies, depicts the funding protections policy landscape. It summarizes which states have different kinds of funding protections. Readers interested in digging deeper into these policies should check out the companion, How States Protect Funding for K-12 Public Schools: State profiles index, which provides state profiles and details the policies for each state.