State: Illinois

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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2023 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration

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 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 unique […]

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2023 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research

Posted on by Ashley Schmidt

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2023 […]

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Survey Says: October 2022

Posted on by Anna McDaniel-Wyatt

PIE Network brings you the latest surveys and public opinion polls that capture the perspectives of students, parents, teachers, principals, and system leaders. The University of Southern California Rossier School of Education has released new survey data, conducted through the Understanding America Study, with new takeaways on the teaching of “controversial” issues: Americans overwhelmingly agree […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration

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 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 […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Best Defense

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 highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy and overcame significant odds; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding the line. Nominees in this category provide models for how to deploy sharp strategies to defend policies or efforts that benefit students. See […]

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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: Suzanne Kubach PIE Network Weaver of the Year

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 honors local, state, or national leaders who consistently go above and beyond their job description to connect and support peers advancing state and local advocacy and policy. This category recognizes advocates who thoughtfully and intentionally support the leadership and work of […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Best Implementation

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 highlights the necessary implementation work to ensure that breakthrough policies or laws lead to sustained impact for students. Advocates know that passing policy is only the beginning of the work to change outcomes and opportunities for students. This is […]

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