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Jon Valant

Director - Brown Center on Education Policy

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 26: An empty hallway is pictured at Heather Hills Elementary School as officials conduct a materials distribution for parents to pick up for distance learning in Bowie, Md., on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Brown Center Chalkboard

What if Americans sour on public education?

Monday, August 29, 2022

Students board their school bus in a sub-zero temperature in Minneapolis, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. According to AccuWeather.com, the extreme cold won't last much longer. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the United States and southern Canada will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com. REUTERS/Eric Miller (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION) - GM1EA190G4I01

Policy 2020

What are charter schools and do they deliver?

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Podcast Episode

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021

A voter casts her ballot in the run-off election featuring incumbent Republican U.S. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, at the polling site at the Dunbar Neighborhood Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Avenue

Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, David Harshbarger, and Anthony Fiano

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Students board their school bus in a sub-zero temperature in Minneapolis, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. According to AccuWeather.com, the extreme cold won't last much longer. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the United States and southern Canada will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com. REUTERS/Eric Miller (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION)

Brown Center Chalkboard

What Brown Center scholars will be watching in education policy and politics in 2023

Daphna Bassok, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Katharine Meyer, Rachel M. Perera, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

An anti-vaccine mandate protester, argues with another meeting attendee during an event organised by Portland Public School to discuss a proposed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandate for students 12-years-old and above in Portland, Oregon, U.S. October 26, 2021. REUTERS/Sergio Olmos NO ARCHIVES. NO RESALES.

Brown Center Chalkboard

It’s time to start voting in your local school board elections

Monday, November 1, 2021

Samantha Wiik's fourth grade class does an activity comparing the positive outcomes of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to their word of the week, "celebration" at Kratzer Elementary School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. April 13, 2021. Students drew on their desks to visually portray this idea with dry erasable markers. Picture taken April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah Beier

Report

Chapter 1: Which districts allocate resources progressively?

Jon Valant and Nicolas Zerbino

Friday, December 16, 2022

Teacher Mary Yi works with fourth grade students at the Sokolowski School, where students and teachers are required to wear masks because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S., September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Brown Center Chalkboard

What education policy experts are watching for in 2022

Daphna Bassok, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, and Kenneth K. Wong

Friday, January 7, 2022

Jonathan Yoder and his family

Longform

From rural digital divides to local solutions

Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Joseph B. Keller

Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative

A conversation on the past, present, and future of Black political power in the South

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST

Paul B. Ginsburg

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy

Senior Fellow - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Students march along the National Mall during a protest against President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Brown Center Chalkboard

Democrats should engage in education politics so kids don’t have to

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

A student wearing a protective mask, attends class on the first day of school, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at St. Lawrence Catholic School in North Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Podcast Episode

What does back-to-school look like during COVID?

Jon Valant and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, September 1, 2021