We have identified, endorsed and supported the election of dozens
of education champions through political action that includes direct contributions, grassroots campaigning and independent advertising.
When it comes to progress in New Orleans and Louisiana, there's so much to celebrate - not least of which is a new crop of
Democratic education champions taking office at all levels throughout the state.
Stand utilizes a multi-pronged advocacy strategy to
elect education champions, lobby for legislative reform, and develop parent and educator leaders who work to persuade elected officials and voters to support education reforms that will improve outcomes for students.
«With primary day around the corner, People for Quality Education will endorse and promote candidates that can be counted on to be true public
school education champions in the legislature, ready to fight for real investments for public school students,» Zakiyah Ansari, a board member of People for Quality Education — and a former member of Mayor Bill de Blasio's transition team, told the Observer.
The nation's leading public school champion, Diane Ravitch, has already named Superintendent Thomas Scarice one of the country's
pro-public education champions.
PIE Network's funding partners advance efforts to nurture connections and share and amplify resources and strategies across the movement, helping to
make education champions even more effective.
Designate a school - level
nutrition education champion to help each grade level create a scope and sequence for offering nutrition education.
Stand for Children Tennessee is proud to
endorse education champions who are committed to helping improve student outcomes, advocating for necessary and equitable funding to address student needs, and increasing potential for college and career success.
Thanks to the heroic work of our Democratic leaders like Representative Angela Williams and Senator Mike Johnston who were willing to take up this fight on behalf of our kids, as well as our committed network of
education champions all across our great state, Colorado's thriving public charter schools are stronger than ever.
Stand Louisiana worked with close partners to
reelect education champions in two contested races for the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB).
By the time your editor's grandmother (one of the last of her generation to obtain the kind of college
prep education championed by Eliot) graduated from Mineola High School in New York State's Nassau County in 1942, the comprehensive high school was dominant.
While the first three components have our team organizing parents across the state, advocating in Olympia during the legislative session, and partnering with districts to implement successful programs, the fourth one —
electing education champions — kicks into gear during election season.
Challenging draft - platform language, as progressive groups across the spectrum did (including teachers unions that objected to the initial language of the drafting committee), doesn't make us any less of progressive
Democratic education champions.
When the State Board
of Education champions the Common Core as «far better than anything we have done before» although those standards were written by employees of testing companies, not educators, and contradict literally all research in how children learn best, then we know the end is at hand.
This evolution in your views would be a fulfillment of the original concept of charter schools as laboratories of innovation with you,
the education champion, ready to put aside petty grievances, inject some innovation into tired bureaucracies, and bow to what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the «urgency of now,» a term that one of your heroes (and mine), Barack Obama, used to great effect.
Our goal is to equip
these education champions with the knowledge and support they need to be advocates for continued, sustained progress in our schools.
Thank you for your support of
these education champions.