2024 Eddies Awards: Best Implementation

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Implementation 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. See a complete […]

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2024 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration

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 […]

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2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research

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 2024 […]

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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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