The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category Features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond […]
Organization: DFER Colorado
2024 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
Colorado’s New Funding Formula: A Conversation with Advocacy Leaders
Colorado leaders made big moves in the 2024 legislative session, as the state passed a major bill to modernize its education finance system and direct resources where they are needed most, updating the school finance formula for the first time in 30 years. Join this session to hear from PIE Network leaders Brenda Dickhoner (ReadyCO), Dan Schaller (CO League […]
2023 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
2022 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging. This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond to […]
2022 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy or protected an existing critical policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained […]
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Accelerating College & Career Pathways for Every Student
The pandemic has made it more challenging than ever for students to get on, and stay on, a high-quality college or career pathway. Recent data have shown that fewer students have made the transition to postsecondary education than before the pandemic, that persistence in college has declined, and that low-income students and students of color are being disproportionately impacted. […]
Teacher Prep Performance Data
This July, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) will release the first ever objective data on the performance of teacher prep programs. NCTQ has spent two years collecting actual pass rate data of teacher candidates from states for each of their elementary prep programs, which will provide a huge opportunity to use these data […]
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Network Leaders
The PIE Network stands united with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities: #StopAsianHate. Members of the PIE Network believe that education can—and should—be transformative, and that change is needed now in the ongoing fight for racial justice and educational excellence. This #AsianPacificHeritageMonth we celebrate some of many Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders across the Network. […]