2024 Executives’ Meeting

The Executives’ Meeting is the only in-person meeting all year that is just for PIE Network executive directors and CEOs. It is a time to connect, reflect, and strategize with your peers from across the country for the work ahead. Registration will open this fall. This event will take place at the Archer Hotel in […]

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2023 PIE Network Summit

PIE Network Summit is an invitation-only experience for Network members, friends, and invited guests. At this working meeting, you’ll join more than 350 leaders, including a high-profile roster of state, local, and national education policy and advocacy leaders. It is a space to refresh and sharpen strategies, share lessons learned and future plans, test ideas, make […]

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Survey Says: May 2022

PIE Network brings you the latest surveys and public opinion polls that capture the perspectives of students, parents, teachers, principals, and system leaders. Axios compiled data on declining enrollment trends:  Districts with the most remote learning lost 4% of their students.  New York saw the most significant decline of any state, with a nearly 6% […]

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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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Crafting a Statewide Comprehensive Approach to College & Career Pathways for Economic Success

To prepare students for today’s job market, education systems need to offer high-quality, rigorous, and diverse pathways that are aligned with workforce needs. Patricia Levesque and Quentin Suffren (ExcelinEd) will share their Pathways Matter work that outlines how states can create pathways that enable students to quickly earn relevant and high-quality credentials that lead to long-term economic success. This discussion will emphasize […]

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Aligning Education & the Workforce

This session will explore ways to better align systems to link together K-12, higher education, and career outcomes and spur innovation, improvement, and quality across education and career-oriented institutions. Anthony Carnevale (Georgetown Center on Education & the Workforce) will discuss what data are needed to analyze education production, to identify labor market needs, and how to better match education and workforce outcomes. Paul […]

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