Audience: PIE Network Leaders A growing number of urban school districts are embroiled in financial mayhem. Districts from San Francisco to Chicago to New Orleans face growing fiscal challenges, and advocates are working to ensure that district and state leaders prioritize the needs of students. Join this conversation with Marguerite Roza (Edunomics Lab) and Erica […]
Topic: Education Funding
Pandemic-Era Funding for Early Learning Programs Showcases One of the Most Important Investments the United States Can Make
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Mississippi’s New Funding Formula: A Conversation with Advocacy Leaders
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Mississippi leaders made big moves in the 2024 legislative session, as the state passed a major bill to modernize its education finance system and direct resources where they are needed most, updating the school finance formula for the first time in almost 30 years. Join this session to hear from Rachel […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Suzanne Kubach PIE Network Weaver of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category honors an individual local, state, or national leader who embodies the “give and get” spirit of PIE Network. Recipients of this award consistently work to build and strengthen the impact of the Network and the sector. This category recognizes individuals who are […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Best Defense
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Defense highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy at significant risk and overcame significant odds using innovative tactics; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding the line. Nominees in this category provide models for how to deploy sharp strategies to […]
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 […]
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 […]
2024 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
Resource Allocation and SEA/LEA Capacity for School Improvement
Audience: PIE Network Leaders Ensuring every school has the right structures in place to support every student requires us to radically transform our nation’s traditional schooling model. Both state and district leaders must carve the path in that change. SEAs need to deeply understand the levers at their disposal both to create enabling conditions and […]
Colorado’s New Funding Formula: A Conversation with Advocacy Leaders
Colorado leaders made big moves in the 2024 legislative session, as the state passed a major bill to modernize its education finance system and direct resources where they are needed most, updating the school finance formula for the first time in 30 years. Join this session to hear from PIE Network leaders Brenda Dickhoner (ReadyCO), Dan Schaller (CO League […]