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 […]
State: National
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 […]
Coalition on the Future of the Teaching Profession
School staffing shortages and their impact on student learning expose long-standing challenges in ensuring great educators for every student. More than ever, a new coalition argues, it’s time to rethink the one-teacher, one-classroom model of teaching and learning, which does not reliably deliver quality learning outcomes and experiences for nearly enough people and communities. In […]
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 […]
Teacher Shortages and Opportunities for Innovation
Teacher shortages and absences in critical subjects and areas across the country are disrupting efforts around pandemic recovery and learning acceleration. As advocates know, this crisis further reveals challenges that already existed around recruiting, certifying, training, and retaining teachers, and more broadly on how we define and structure teacher roles. In this conversation, Chad Aldeman […]