Alabama leaders made big moves in the 2025 legislative session, passing major legislation to modernize its education finance system and direct resources where they are needed most. The RAISE Act–the first significant update to the state’s formula in 30 years–creates a new hybrid funding formula to target student needs, and includes weights for special education, […]
Topic: Public Education Options
Understanding Work-Based Learning Models & Why They Matter
This session will provide an overview of key work-based learning models, examine the latest research on what works, and unpack current barriers to expanding access. Join this session with Laura Love (Strada Education Foundation) and Kevin Grubb (Strada Education Foundation) to develop a stronger foundation to support informed policy and advocacy efforts. Register to join. […]
Mastering the Charter School Program
The shifting federal landscape on charter schools can make it hard to successfully navigate federal funding opportunities. Join this session to learn more about the Charter School Program (CSP), which provides funding for the startup of new charter schools and the replication and expansion of existing high-quality charter schools serving students from pre-K to 12. Starlee Coleman (National […]
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), […]
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 […]
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. […]
What Do Parents Want?
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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 […]
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 […]
The first year of Equitable Access: An examination of common lottery outcomes for at-risk students
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