Building Better Schools: Insights from Innovative Public Schools

Audience: PIE Network Leaders Recent research from NewSchools documents how schools in its portfolio are able to outperform traditional models to achieve exceptional academic and social-emotional outcomes. Join this conversation led by Mia Howard (NewSchools) with pioneering school founders Kristle Hodges Johnson (University High School, TN), Declan O’Connor (Discovery Polytech Early College Prep HS, MA), […]

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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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Calculating School Options and Education Funding

Audience: PIE Network Leaders As public investment in school choice programs rises, whare are the financial implications for states and districts? Join Marguerite Roza and Maggie Ciccio (Edunomics Lab), who will share a real-time analysis of how many public dollars are flowing through private options and discuss these trends fit into broader state revenues outlook. […]

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Fireside Chat with Author and Journalist Benjamin Herold

Join us for a fireside chat with Benjamin Herold about his latest book, Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs. Herold is a veteran education reporter whose work has appeared in Education Week, PBS NewsHour, Huffington Post, The Hechinger Report, NPR, WHYY, and the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. The Atlantic hailed this new […]

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Educators Reformers Academy – Information Session about Fellowship Opportunity

Education Reformers Academy (ERA) is launching a fellowship to equip a new generation of policy professionals (inside and outside of government) for the work to ensure every child has access to the life-changing power of a great education. ERA fellows will hear from the nation’s top education policy experts and practitioners on foundational topics, including school […]

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