Advocacy Center for Children's Educational Success with Stan
http://www.accessednetwork.org/
ACCESS is a national initiative of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. that seeks to strengthen the links between school finance litigation, public engagement, and the standards-based reform movement. ACCESS is working to create a national network of advocates, attorneys, educators, researchers, and parents to promote opportunities for adequate education for all children.
Alliance to Save Energy – Green Schools Campaign
http://www.ase.org/greenschools/
Green Schools is a comprehensive program designed for K-12 schools that creates energy awareness, enhances experiential learning, and saves schools money on energy costs. The Green Schools program helps schools use energy efficiently through building retrofits, changes in operational and maintenance routines, and changes in the behavior of building users. Students, teachers, custodians, administrators, and community partners all work together toward a common goal - saving energy and money.
Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE)
http://www.cfequity.org/
CFEis a coalition of parent organizations, community school boards, concerned citizens and advocacy groups. CFE seeks to reform New York State’s education finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York State. Since 1993, CFE has been working to change the way New York State funds its public schools by launching a constitutional challenge to the state's school finance system; promoting public dialogue and input on education and school funding reform; and conducting policy research on student access to a sound basic education across the country.
Coalition for Community Schools (CCS)
http://www.communityschools.org/
CCS works toward improving education and helping students learn and grow while supporting and strengthening their families and communities. These community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities - before, during and after school, seven days a week. CCS brings together local, state and national organizations that represent individuals and groups engaged in creating and sustaining community schools.
Committee for Education Funding (CEF)
http://www.cef.org/
CEF comprises over 95 organizations dedicated to the goal of achieving adequate federal financial support for our nation's schools and students at all levels. CEF is a voluntary, nonprofit, and nonpartisan coalition. The purpose of CEF is to provide members of the general public and government officials with the information enabling them to better assess the need for funding of federal education programs. CEF takes positions on federal education funding issues that represent a consensus of its membership and then communicates those positions to federal government officials and Members of Congress.
Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS)
http://www.cgcs.org/
CGCS is a coalition of nearly 60 of the nation's largest urban public school systems. Founded in 1956 and, CGCS is located in Washington DC, where it works to promote urban education through legislation, research, media relations, instruction, management, technology, and other special projects designed to improve the quality of urban education. CGCS serves as the national voice for urban educators, providing ways to share promising practices and address common concerns.
DC VOICE
http://www.dcvoice.org/
DC VOICE, (District Community Voices Organized and Informed for Change in Education) is a growing city-wide collaborative of teachers, principals, parents/guardians, youth, schools and school system personnel, community-based organizations, policy-makers and power-brokers committed to strengthen the public voice in public education.
Education Law Center (ELC)
http://www.edlawcenter.org/
ELC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of equal educational opportunity for poor children and children with disabilities in New Jersey. ELC achieves its mission by promoting systemic school reform and by enforcing and expanding the rights of individual students to a thorough, efficient and appropriate education under state and federal law. Strategies used include: research, parent and community education & training, advocacy, coalition building and, where necessary, litigation.
Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL)
http://www.iel.org/
IEL's mission is to improve education - and the lives of children and their families - through positive and visionary change. IEL strives to achieve this mission by bringing together diverse constituencies and empowering leaders with knowledge and applicable ideas.
Institute for Wisconsin's Future (IWF)
http://www.wisconsinsfuture.org/
IWF is a statewide policy research and community information center established in 1994 to increase public awareness about key policy issues in Wisconsin. Over the past seven years, IWF has completed 25 research reports on wages, welfare, housing, taxes, and education. IWF also coordinated seven major conferences, held over 230 workshops, and talked to thousands of other Wisconsinites through newsletters and the media. In the area of education, IWF has conducted three studies on education finance and met with thousands of parents, teachers, school administrators, and school board members to discuss school-funding problems.
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