Organization: HawaiiKidsCAN

2023 Eddies Awards: Power to the People Campaign

Posted on by Anna McDaniel-Wyatt

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category features grassroots policy and advocacy campaigns at the local level that responded to community needs, grew from community power, and transformed opportunities for students and families in their community. While direct services are powerful—and needed—this category features policy and advocacy campaigns serving […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year

Posted on by Ashley Schmidt

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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2022 Eddies Awards: Power to the People Campaign

Posted on by Anna McDaniel-Wyatt

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category features grassroots policy and advocacy campaigns at the local level that responded to community needs, grew from community power, and transformed opportunities for students and families in their community.  See a complete list of 2022 nominees in all Eddies! categories. Staff at PIE […]

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Investing in Pathways

As ESSER plans have now been approved by the U.S. Department of Education, advocates continue their work of ensuring transparency and equity in state and district spending. In this session, we come together to look specifically at how states and districts are using relief funds to expand college and career readiness and pathways for all […]

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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. […]

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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Network Leaders

Posted on by PIE Network

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. […]

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