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= Burbio = Burbio, Inc. is a data company that aggregates public information on school policy, education spending, and community events on a mass scale. While originally created to provide an online calendar service in which local community organizations would manually input their own events for users to subscribe to, the company later started to compile community and school event data en masse on its own. Burbio's data became a widely-used resource during the COVID-19 pandemic to track the reopening status and learning models of public schools across the United States, including the adoption of fully virtual learning, hybrid learning, or the retention of traditional in-person instruction.

Burbio was founded by Julie Roche and Dennis Roche in 2013. As of 2022, Burbio has collected data from over 80,000 US public schools, as well as "tens of thousands of library, government, and community non-profit event calendars." Their focus since 2020 has been on data as a service contracts, with partners including the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services.

In addition to their school and community event tracking, Burbio has tracked spending of pandemic-related education relief funding, including the federal ESSER program. In August 2022, Burbio announced the launch of the School Budget Tracker, which "provides granular categorization of district-level K-12 school operating budget plans," as well as information on federal stimulus spending, capital budget spending, and enrollment trends from all 50 states.

History
Burbio was created and incorporated by Pelham, New York parents Julie Roche and Dennis Roche in July 2013, and was initially founded with the goal to help parents organize the schedules of their families. Having met as brand managers at Procter and Gamble, the Roches used their experience measuring consumer behavior to build their company.