How the Underfunding of K-12 Public Schools Impacts Students, Educators, and Families
Students, educators, and family members describe how the underfunding of K-12 public schools has negatively impacted their experiences and opportunities.
Education, K-12
The Center for American Progress’ K-12 Education team is committed to developing policies for a new education agenda that is rooted in the idea of opportunity for all, with equity in access at the center. This agenda focuses on five key components: (1) applying an explicit race equity lens to policy development; (2) preparing all students for college, civic engagement, and the future workforce; (3) modernizing and elevating the teaching profession; (4) dramatically increasing investments in public schools and improving the equity of existing investments; and (5) bringing a balanced approach to charter school policy.
Budget Reconciliation Must Support a Quality Education for All Students
Ensuring a quality education for America’s students during the COVID-19 pandemic will require a range of federal and state supports, as well as efforts to build a robust economy that works for everyone.
Ending K-12 Education Funding Inequity: Public Education Opportunity Grants
Future of Testing in Education: Effective and Equitable Assessment Systems
A Quality Education for Every Child
How To Ensure Equitable Access to Great Teaching
Congress Must Invest in K-12 Education and Our Students
All students deserve access to a high-quality education, but years of underfunding have undermined many aspects of school quality, especially in schools predominantly serving students from families with low resources and students who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. These students’ communities were hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, making these inequalities much worse.
Future of Testing in Education: The Way Forward for State Standardized Tests
There are valid criticisms about the current structure of state standardized testing in schools; the solution is not to get rid of these assessments but rather to design them differently.
Future of Testing in Education: Artificial Intelligence
Technology and artificial intelligence can vastly improve the types of assessments teachers use to guide students in their learning.
Fact Sheet: Targeted Grants for Educational Excellence Program
This fact sheet outlines the details of a proposed grant program that would increase recruitment and retention of highly qualified educators in schools with the highest teacher turnover.
The Secretary’s Proposed Priorities for Discretionary Grants Programs
In these comments, the Center for American Progress provides support for the secretary’s six proposed priorities and offers some additional recommendations to further strengthen them.
How Students Can Help Build Better Education Policy
The Education Department has an opportunity to reimagine the policymaking process by committing to incorporating student voice.
Social and Emotional Supports for Educators During and After the Pandemic
As K-12 districts and schools plan for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is essential that providing social and emotional supports for educators is a key part of the conversation.
Recommending the Reestablishment of Five White House Initiatives
In this letter, Khalilah Harris recommends that the Biden administration reestablish five White House initiatives housed in the Department of Education.
Remote Learning and School Reopenings: What Worked and What Didn’t
As the United States recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and schools return to in-person learning in the fall, it is key that educators learn from the successes of the past year and avoid making the same mistakes.
Investing in Educators Through the American Families Plan
Led by Teach Plus, this letter to Congress asks that $9 billion in funding be included in the American Families Plan to invest in the teaching workforce.
Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students
Even in high schools with similar levels of access to advanced coursework, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students are less likely to be enrolled in advanced courses—and even when they are enrolled, they experience less success in these courses than their peers.
The Funnel To Passing AP Exams
This interactive uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to estimate how many students, overall and disaggregated, enroll in AP courses, take AP tests, and pass AP tests.
Public Hearing on Title IX
Led by GLSEN and six other co-leaders, these comments were submitted in response to the Department of Education’s public hearing on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Proposed Priorities for Grant Programs Under the Effective Educator Development Division
In these comments, the Center for American Progress provides some suggestions for strengthening two proposed department priorities concerning grants programs under the Effective Educator Development Division.