To continue providing technical assistance to Birmingham, Charleston and Washington, DC, as they develop plans to support the priorities and strategies outlined in the applications for the federal Good Jobs Challenge (GJC)
Charter Board Partners DBA Education Board Partners
To support the charter sector by strengthening charter school board governance across the country
2022
Education
$300,000
Common Ground Foundation, Inc.
To support programming work to increase opportunities for Black youth and build awareness of promising practices to increase social and economic mobility
2022
Education
$500,000
Council of Chief State School Officers
To build state and district capacity to adopt and advance student-centered and personalized learning models
To support the production of reported articles, videos and more to bring increased attention to broader strategies for advancing opportunities for students, families and communities
To explore how communities and states can create ecosystems where learning does not just happen at school and develop a strategy to raise, organize and direct the kind of significant funding that will be necessary to fund new ways of organizing, supporting and credentialing learning
To increase support for policies that improve teacher pension systems, with the specific goal of minimizing the effect that pension debt has on education budgets
To support a cohort of at least three school districts to create and use new resources that will ensure they are purchasing digital assessments that meet the needs of teachers and students
2022
Education
$353,274
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
To organize and host a national convening to highlight and share promising practices and common pain points with implementing new competency-based and student-centered assessment systems
To develop the framework, network, and materials necessary to launch a fall 2022 Texas marketing campaign to better connect youth with careers that will connect their core purpose, talents and passions
