Education Policy and Activism

On April 15, 2013, the Leadership Conference Education Fund released their report,
“Reversing the Rising Tide of Inequality: Achieving Educational Equity for Each and Every Child,” – a call to action to provide each and every child the education she or he deserves.
View the latest
Rural Trust i3 resources here, including archived
webinars, presentations, and grant competition news. The Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant was established under section 14007 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and provides funding to support local educational agencies (LEAs) and nonprofit organizations in partnership with one or more LEAs or a consortium of schools.
On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Department of Education announced the start of the $150 million 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition with the release of the program's invitation for pre-applications for the i3 "Development" grant category and the notice of final priorities for the i3 program overall.

On February 19, 2013, the Co-chairs of the Equity and Excellence commission presented their report to Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. The Commission's report,
“For Each and Every Child,” highlights the need to eliminate
“education disparities affecting millions of underserved and disadvantaged students.” Rural Trust Executive Director and Capacity Building Director, Dr. Doris Terry Williams was appointed to the Commission in 2011.
The featured innovation of this
Rural School Innovations Series Webinar from February 2013 was Northern Arizona's STAR School and its 3-to-3rd Math Project.
Date:
January 16, 2013
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Strengths and Silences: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students in Rural and Small Town Schools underscores the need for educators and policymakers to do more to address the safety risks for LGBT students in rural and small town schools.
Date:
December 18, 2012
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Local public schools are governed by a variety of rules. But who makes the rules? This segment of “The Rules We Play By” is the third in a series of
RPM articles that explore some of the ways public policy affects what’s possible in local schools — and why you should care.
Voters decided education-related ballot initiatives in many states this month, some with potentially far-reaching results.
Voters in the Buckeye State approved many local district requests for funding, but calls are growing louder for a school finance system overall.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that would expand charter operations in Georgia. But some opponents are challenging it in court, arguing that the language of the initiative was misleading.
Date:
November 27, 2012
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Next month's elections will steer a course in many states with education initiatives on the statewide ballot.
Date:
October 29, 2012
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Local public schools are governed by a variety of rules. But who makes those rules? The "Who Makes the Rule?" is the second in a series of
RPM stories that explores some of the ways public policy affects what's possible in local schools — and why you should care.
Advocacy organization says harsh immigration law forced students to flee schools for fear of deportation.
Keystone state legislators struggle with reforming charter school regulations in the wake of lawsuits over funding.
The state superintendent of education must respond to allegations from a rural district that it cannot afford to comply with a new state voucher law and desegregation orders.
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