An alert on Education Financing, featuring the NCEE Policy Tracker, which graphically analyses the education financing across different states, warnings of eminent experts on Education Finance, recent research on Indian education budgets, and media articles.  https://educationemergency.net/newsletter/NewsletterJan22.html 

The pandemic has escalated this education crisis into an emergency. Unprecedented learning deprivation, student dropout, increasing child labour, malnutrition, early marriages due to unthinking prolonged school closures are devastating our country and will set us back by decades. This is the time to massively increase funding of public education, to renew and revitalize it, with a clear focus on the disadvantaged and marginalized: rebuild school infrastructure, fill teacher vacancies, bring children back to school, flood schools with a variety of learning materials and teaching resources, and facilitate community engagement.