Giving Compass' Take:

• EdSurge tackles the issue of school financing, the new K-12 investment ecosystem and the three phases in this transition: reaction, strategic response and growth of the market.

• How can financial models that align spending with student success be created? What are the opportunities for social venture capitalists over the next five years?

• Here's more on why education is the ultimate impact investment. 

Investors take note: Business intelligence that relies on a district’s budget and fiscal data will become a fast-growing K-12 market in the next five years. Today, that may not be the case; just brandishing the title of Chief Financial Officer at a conference tends to ward people off. There are few who relish discussions about ledger-transfers and the complexity of central versus school level per-pupil expenditures.

The problem is not that these conversations are dry. (They are.) It’s that most conversations about a school’s expenses don’t sync up to what’s happening in the classroom—the instruction, materials, and tools that shape the educational experience for teachers and students.

That’s soon to change. School finance is set to become an important lens into good schooling, and it’s very likely that there are three phases to this transition.

Phase One: Reaction
Phase Two: Strategic Response
Phase Three: Growth of the Market

Read the full article about shaping the new K-12 investment ecosystem by David DeSchryver and Noelle Ellerson Ng at EdSurge.