This resource provides a national overview of the key policymaking roles in K-12 education policy, a summary of each role’s general powers and duties, and some information on how they relate to other policymaking roles.
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The Future of Smart: Episode 28
Dr. Temple Lovelace, executive director of Assessment for Good, and Dr. Susan Lyons, co-founder and executive director of Women in Measurement, join The Future of Smart podcast to talk about thinking differently about measurement and systems of learning and education.
Afterschool and Summer Workforce Solutions Database
New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy
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November 2020
50-State Comparison: K-12 Governance
October 2020
A Promise Worth Keeping: An Updated Equity-Driven Framework for Free College Programs
This report updates the findings from the 2018 report on free college programs. This time around The Education Trust reviewed 23 existing statewide policies with our updated framework, which considers whether a program:
- Covers the full cost of going to college – beyond tuition and fees – for four or more years
- Helps students from low-income backgrounds defray their living expenses
- Is accessible to adult, returning and part-time students, , as well as all undocumented and incarcerated students
- Attaches strings that discourage certain student groups from applying
- Converts to a loan
October 2020
2020 Youth Organizing Snapshot: A Field Poised to Lead
Across the country, young people are at the forefront of momentous social change. Mobilized en masse, they are achieving critical victories in the fight to end the school to prison pipeline. They are spearheading dynamic mutual aid networks to meet their communities’ needs during a pandemic of unprecedented scale. They are energizing young voters with forward-thinking demands for a new and more democratic era.
2020 is truly a landmark year for youth organizing.
Yet this work is not new. Throughout history, young people - in particular young people of color, working class youth, girls, and queer and trans youth - have time and again acted as the engine propelling our most transformative movements for environmental, economic, immigrant, gender, and racial justice.
Today, we set the stage with a snapshot of the youth organizing field — a field poised to lead.
October 2020
THIS IS NOT A TEST, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY: Special Considerations for Assessing and Advancing Equity in School-Year 2020-21
Education assessment can play a crucial role in identifying these learning and related challenges, allowing policy leaders to direct resources to where the needs are the greatest. It will be incredibly challenging, however, to collect, interpret, and use high-quality state standardized test data this school year. This brief recognizes this conundrum and offers recommendations for state leaders regarding assessment in 2020-2021.
October 2020
Spotlight: Learning Forerunners Across America
The Learning Forerunners Across America Spotlight with Remake Learning, Remake Learning Days, and The Grable Foundation highlights system-level best practices that foster innovation at scale in 16 regions across the United States.
October 2020
Election 2020: Education Equity on the Ballot
To help voters learn where candidates in key statewide political races in the South and the Presidential race stand on education equity, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) has produced Election 2020: Education Equity on the Ballot.
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