Post-Pandemic Education Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles with Expert Education Consulting Services
In the wake of the pandemic’s impacts to an already fragile system, superintendents face the next wave of financial and operational challenges, including:
- Enrollment Loss
- Growing Cost Structures
- ESSER Expiration
- Talent Shortages
- Economic Uncertainty
Transformative Actions for School Districts: Driving Success in the Post-Pandemic Era
As the deadline to use remaining ESSER funds approaches, education leaders have a “once in a generation” opportunity to make structural and operational changes to better serve students. Big, bold, changes are required. But leaders must act quickly and decisively before the window of opportunity closes. As school districts across the country work to avoid the fiscal cliff as COVID-relief funds expire, the following four actions will be critical to optimize funding and attention to student outcomes and achievement:
- Use a data-driven approach to create structures and processes that evaluate, prioritize and align current and planned investments with student outcomes.
- Streamline administrative functions for efficiency and effectiveness; reallocate savings to cover revenue losses and re-invest in the classroom.
- Build resilient organizations that can serve today’s changing student population while remaining flexible to meet the next challenge or student need.
- Re-imagine teacher and leadership career tracks, incentives and training to build must-have capabilities and improve retention.
Expert Education Transformation Services: A&M's Solutions for School Districts
A&M provides leadership, data driven problem-solving and value-creation to underperforming and healthy organizations in the US and globally. In 2003, A&M launched its Public Sector Services (PSS) practice devoted to serving the unique needs of the public sector. As part of that practice, A&M Education delivers strategic assessments, recommendations and reforms to school systems, charter management organizations and state education agencies. We’ve been on the front lines of some of the most dramatic transformation efforts in public education both at the district and statewide level.
We help K-12 agencies and districts:
- Deliver cost-savings that close financial gaps and prioritize student success
- Improve financial management to drive transparency, objectivity, and alignment with priorities
- Evaluate and prioritize curriculum and EdTech investments
- Create efficient organizations and equitable funding models to optimize the value of each dollar
- Analyze district and school operations and cost structures against student need and forecasted enrollment to design and implement district transformation efforts
- Align pandemic recovery funding with proven strategies to address learning loss and other priorities while charting a course for fiscal sustainability post-ESSER
