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Executive Summary: Protecting Children From Extreme Heat Is Critical for Their Health, Learning, and Development

This fact sheet summarizes a recent Center of American Progress report highlighting the need for policymakers to take steps to develop heat standards for children and support infrastructure improvements to ensure schools, child care centers, and communities are safe and healthy places for children.

Protecting Children From Extreme Heat Is Critical for Their Health, Learning, and Development

As climate change intensifies extreme heat around the globe, policymakers must take steps to develop heat standards for children and support infrastructure improvements to ensure schools, child care centers, and communities are safe and healthy places for children.

2024 Summit on Education: Reset. Reframe. Reform.

Summit on Education: Reset. Reframe. Reform.

K-12 Education Is Vital to Success of Biden Administration’s Investment Agenda

K-12 education needs a seat at the table when implementing new laws to boost infrastructure, green energy, and technology.

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.

How To Ensure Equitable Access to Great Teaching

The Center for American Progress proposes a new grant program to address the working conditions that contribute to job dissatisfaction and high turnover among the nation’s K-12 teachers in order to increase equal access to highly qualified teachers.

Ending K-12 Education Funding Inequity: Public Education Opportunity Grants

A Public Education Opportunity Grants program will make K-12 education more equitable at the local, state, and federal levels.

An Overview of the Teacher Alternative Certification Sector Outside of Higher Education

A growing number of students are enrolling in alternative certification programs for teachers run by operators outside colleges.

Fact Sheet: Public Education Opportunity Grants

This fact sheet outlines the main goals and provisions of the proposed Public Education Opportunity Grants program.

A First 100 Days Agenda for K-12 Education

The next presidential administration must take immediate, bold action to provide a quality education for every child.

Public Education Opportunity Grants

The Center for American Progress is proposing a new federal grant program to dramatically increase the federal investment in K-12 education and make education funding more equitable at the federal, state, and local levels.