Voters are frustrated with the country’s direction, but they agree on what they want from schools: strong reading and math, annual assessments, and real pathways to careers. As new governors and legislators take office, this data gives advocates a clear, cross-partisan mandate to bring to the table. About the 2026 Survey In August 2026, PIE […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Federal shifts to Medicaid and SNAP will reshape school funding. What happens to school funding when changes to Medicaid and SNAP impact how states identify and fund students experiencing economic disadvantage? EdFund, a PIE Network national member, commissioned studies to examine how various states classify and count students. […]
Audience: PIE Network Executive Directors or Designee Join policy expert Lindsay Fryer (Lodestone DC) for a monthly deep dive into the shifting landscape of federal education policy. These conversations will provide timely insights into how evolving political dynamics in the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Department of Education may impact education policy nationwide. Lindsay […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations When core instruction, intervention, and tutoring pull in different directions, the students furthest behind carry the cost. Instructional coherence is the design principle that ties them together, and getting it right is as much an implementation challenge as a policy one. In this session, Devon Gadow (TNTP) will […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations In the second session of our Federal Tax Credit Scholarship series, we take a closer look at Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) — how they are established, how they operate, and what it takes for states to cultivate a strong network of SGOs that serve the public interest across […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Join Stacey Alicea and Poorvaja Sundar (Research Partnership for Professional Learning, RPPL) for an interactive session exploring RPPL’s Shared Measures Curriculum-Based Professional Learning ELA and Math Implementation Toolkit — a practical resource for monitoring High Quality Instructional Materials and Curriculum-Based Professional Learning implementation across literacy and math. Participants […]
Audience: PIE Network Executive Directors or Designee Join policy expert Lindsay Fryer (Lodestone DC) for a monthly deep dive into the shifting landscape of federal education policy. These conversations will provide timely insights into how evolving political dynamics in the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Department of Education may impact education policy nationwide. Lindsay will break […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Last May, the Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond left open the possibility that future cases could return the issue of religious charter schools to the Court. Now, a number of state lawsuits may do just that in the next […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Join us for the first session in our series on the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, a landmark federal program that will take effect in January 2027. In this foundational session, we’ll walk through how the tax credit works, eligible expenses families can use scholarship funds for, and the […]
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations For the second year in a row, 50CAN partnered with Edge Research on the State of Educational Opportunity in America, a survey of more than 23,000 parents across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey report offers a state-by-state examination of the current education landscape […]
