Member Commitments
PIE Network members are state-based organizations working solely on education reform. These groups are organized differently in every state, though they play similar roles and share many common characteristics. Everyone in the network is committed to a set of policy goals and objectives. That means that to be a member organization, the organization’s mission supports these objectives and its leaders have no philosophical disagreements with the issues and objectives on the list. The core policy objectives include:
• Close achievement gaps and help all students graduate from high school world-ready.
• Create urgency to improve low-performing schools and school districts.
• Increase teacher effectiveness and school accountability.
• Advance and protect quality charter schools and other options for parent choice.
• Improve transparency, equity, and productivity of educational funding systems.
In addition, network members commit to spread policy innovations, best practices and lessons learned with other network members, and to publicly identify as a member of the PIE Network, including maintaining a link to the PIE Network website.
Member benefits
The network’s mission to “build, support, and promote” education advocacy organizations means that network members enjoy unique opportunities, including:
- Members have the opportunities to attend twice annual meetings with a peer network to discuss policy research and the strategies and tactics for advancing that research (costs of meals, accommodations, and registration covered, but not travel).
- Members have three additional scholarships to the annual policy summit that the EAO leader has discretion to extend to key state leaders, board members, staff members, or other allies (covers meeting and travel expenses).
- Members have opportunities to apply for other resource opportunities, such as our current mini-grant initiative that supports innovation, policy implementation, and cross network collaboration.
- Members can join a community of colleagues on the organization’s website that enables member to trade key resources such as model legislation, policy frameworks, and useful data.
