Unprecedented international challenges are creating enormous inequities and hurting children’s academic and mental health. The solution is to ensure money flows to the educational setting that best meets their needs. With a virtual backpack that contains the funds, the equipment, the bandwidth and more, every family can choose the best learning environment for their kids. Such innovations in how we operate schools matter more now than ever. Read and learn from the people doing it and start advocating.
#FundFamilies
(not failure)
How to Give Students Education Opportunity — During COVID & Beyond
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When education works for kids, we’re all happy. When it doesn’t,
we need to act with urgency. That’s what #FundFamilies is all about.
How to Get Engaged in the Fight
Learn How Money Follows Students
Read The Parent Power Index!
States are the most important driver in whether we #FundFamilies, or failure. Laws and policies that offer a wide variety of education opportunities to students, public, private, charter, microschool or whatever were better able to adapt to Covid and any challenges along the way. PPI is an interactive guide to help you learn how well your kids perform overall, what your state is or isn’t doing to help, and what you can do to help your state develop policies to foster opportunity and equity.
Use Espinoza’s Sword
Many states have permitted 150 year old Constitutional provisions to prevent the adoption of laws where money follows kids to the schools of their choice. In June, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of parents to direct the education of their children. The case, Espinoza vs Montana Department of Revenue paved the way for more options for students, if states will take up the sword given them by the Court decision. States will have to take some action to do so. Learn how in this important paper by Constitutional law attorney Paul Clement.
Stay in the Know
Day to day hundreds of people are writing about the urgent need to #FundFamilies, not failure. CER stays on top of the news everyday all day, contributes to the dialogue in the press, through podcasts, social media, tracks state and local action and reports on who’s doing what and when. To ensure every learner in America has access to the best education possible, it’s important to be as knowledgeable as possible. Here’s how…
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Take entertaining but important conversations along with you on your drives or walks or whenever you listen to podcasts. Reality Check w/Jeanne Allen highlights leaders and newsmakers who are disrupting the old, traditional way of doing school. Whether it’s parent voices or innovations in work and higher education, you’ll find out about groups and people who can help you join the fight to #FundFamilies, not failure.
