Big questions remain, such as what shape a new education funding formula could take, and how many districts will actually decide to consolidate.

Districts handling enrollment declines successfully share one trait: they started planning years before a fiscal crisis forced the issue.

District leaders are discovering the hidden reality of the SaaS era: schools no longer own their systems or control their data environments.

Lawmakers have regularly balanced the state budget “on the backs of students,” public schools advocates have argued. This year, legislators took a different approach.