Last Updated March 16, 2023 PIE Network members and partners are shining a light on the spending and impact of approximately $190 billion in new federal funding for K-12 education. Advocates are building trackers and other tools to ensure that money—distributed as part of ESSER, which you can learn more about in this brief—goes where […]
Program: Advocacy & Organizing Supports
Working Group: ESSER Tracking and Advocacy
This ESSER Tracking and Advocacy Working Group is open to all Network members. In this meeting, leaders from SCORE in Tennessee, A+ Education Partnership in Alabama, and the School and State Finance Project in Connecticut will share tools they’ve built to track ESSER spending and promote the strategic use of these funds, and will join […]
Looking Back & Looking Ahead: Race & Education Policy Landscape Update
Efforts to advance legislation that curtails the teaching of history, literature, and race in education have continued to spread across the country, and the playbook to target school boards, schools, teachers, curricula, and classroom instruction continues to evolve. Join for this discussion on new research, how recent legislation in Indiana failed, what leaders in Tennessee […]
Smart State Strategies for Building Intensive Tutoring Systems
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Addressing Teacher Shortages: Practical Ideas for the Pandemic and Beyond
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Covid-Aid Spending Trends by City, Suburban, Rural School Districts
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Still Rising: Charter School Enrollment and Student Achievement at the Metropolitan Level
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Re-starting and Strengthening Accountability for English Learners
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Messaging Education Finance – Training with RALLY
In part two of this series on messaging education finance, Ashley Burns, and Sarah Sifuentes from RALLY will lead a workshop to provide hands-on learning and ensure advocates are equipped to use new messaging insights. The RALLY team will share a new messaging framework with key takeaways from recent polling and focus groups, as well […]
Resuming Accountability: Federal Guidance & What’s Next
States have largely been on a two-year break from their school accountability systems, but recent U.S. Department of Education guidance requires states to resume identifying low-performing schools so that the students who have been most impacted by the pandemic receive the support they need. This guidance also allows states to make some modifications to account […]