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Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape
This week’s Supreme Court decision clearing the way for dismantling the U.S. Department of Education marks a profound shift, placing even greater responsibility on states to uphold educational equity with fewer federal supports. As nearly half the states raise legal challenges over delayed federal funds, philanthropy must meet this moment—not with political posturing, but with urgency, clarity and action.
Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025
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Episode 140 - The Future of Smart with Ulcca Joshi Hansen
Fabienne Vailes speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen - author of The Future of Smart: How our education systems need to change to help all young people thrive and Chief Program Officer at Grantmakers for Education.
Elevating School Leadership in State Policy
The Policy Brief examines recent state actions to support school leaders, including legislative examples from 13 states. To address the changing roles of school leaders, states are enacting legislation to strengthen the candidate pipeline and ensure school leaders are represented in the policymaking process.
Understanding Teacher Compensation: A State-by-State Analysis
Offering competitive teacher compensation is an important part of the puzzle to recruiting and retaining a strong and diverse teacher workforce. This brief provides a state-by-state analysis of three public school teacher wage indicators.
Welcome to the Grantmakers for Education Board
Grantmakers for Education welcomes Dr. Gisele C. Shorter of the Raikes Foundation to its board of directors.
Imperfect Attendance: Toward a fairer measure of student absenteeism
The need to understand how schools can improve student attendance has never been greater. This study breaks new ground by examining high schools’ contributions to attendance after accounting for individual students’ prior absenteeism and other observable characteristics—that is, their “attendance value-added.”
Leaning In: The New Power of Parents in Public Education
This report examines the rise of the new generation of activist parent organizations in public education, the people behind the movement, and its consequences for education policy and policymakers. Includes a legislative tracker to follow the parents’ rights bills moving through state legislatures.
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