That's according to Tripod Education's new market study, a survey of nearly 800 educators and district administrators, unveiling significant shifts in instructional approaches, curricula and district strategies.

While it's been an issue for years, public school enrollment issues have worsened since COVID, forcing school closures as we near the end of pandemic relief funding. In one state's case, researchers are forecasting a decline of over half a million students by the 2031-32 school year.

Gov. Jared Polis wants to fully fund schools for the first time since 2009 by getting rid of a fiscal tool state lawmakers have used to reduce education funding, according to his proposed budget for 2024-25.

We were using a hodgepodge of different tools for school-to-home communications, none of which worked particularly well or got the job done.