Twelve leading education organizations announced a new effort today to help ensure all students receive the equitable educational opportunities they deserve. The newly formed Coalition to Advance Future Student Success is a recognition that the historic injection of federal emergency relief funds presents a transformative opportunity for America’s public K-12 education system.
The Coalition represents leaders involved in advancing public education and their goal is to ensure that the federal investment provided during the COVID-19 pandemic is spent effectively and efficiently.
Coalition members have committed to working together to identify promising practices, support state, and local leaders, and coordinate the efforts of leading education organizations toward transformative goals. A key pillar is to support historically underserved students who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the next few years, a 10-point framework, collaboratively developed by the Coalition, will drive consistent guidance that could advance recovery in school systems across the country. The framework imperatives include: reopening school buildings and ensuring that they can stay open safely, closing the digital divide, ensuring students have ample supports in place for academics and well-being, connecting students to fruitful postsecondary opportunities, guaranteeing curriculum and assessment quality, recruiting and retaining talented educators, and exploring new education delivery models.
Edited by Maryssa Gordon, Senior Editor, Price of Business Digital Network
