State Goals

- Enacting changes to choice programs to increase enrollment by 10,000 students, allowing high-quality charter schools to remove enrollment caps more easily and increasing the number of students eligible for the Special Needs ESA.

- Continuing to fight for student-centered funding and diversifying the educator workforce, so that students have access to teachers who share their background.
- Modernizing the teacher workforce by creating more pathways for educators to be certified.
- Creating an automatic mechanism to require districts to report federal spending, while increasing community input and collaboration in school improvement efforts.

- Taking next steps to reform Delaware’s school funding formula to a unit-based system and outlining in law the expectations, engagements and options necessary to ensure educational equity, all while defending against attacks on the charter sector.
- Designating broadband access as an essential utility.
- Codifying language that requires districts to report how they spend federal money.

- Improving and expanding the Statewide Tax Credit and increasing the number of high-quality charter seats while also expanding teacher pipeline and diversity programs.
- Ensuring that tutoring programs and after-school learning programs are protected and track results.
- Expanding learning opportunities for all children through the creation of an ESA or direct-aid program.
- Protecting Georgia’s system of high-quality assessments, accountability, evaluations and transparency.
- Aligning career pathways with high-demand industries.

- Providing grant funds to families to support key educational needs.
- Updating the requirements to serve on the State Board of Education.
- Removing barriers so more students can participate in career readiness programs, providing incentive funds to schools when students complete industry-recognized credential programs and enabling computer science courses to count toward core graduation requirements.
- Letting students more easily earn school credit from community-based programs and organizations.

- Ensuring the state fulfills new budget requirements on reporting the use and impact of federal funds on student achievement.
- Maintaining and enacting education recovery policies through parent advocacy and other partnerships and coalitions.
- Securing more equitable school and facilities funding, including more equitable funding for charter schools and facilities funding for charter and renaissance schools, alongside effective implementation of a teacher certification pilot program.

- Informing the public and policymakers how federal ARP funds are being used, while also passing a constitutional amendment declaring a right to a quality education.
- Establishing a revolving loan fund for charter school facilities and funding a quality teacher pipeline program.

- Doubling facilities funding for charter schools, enacting a student-based funding model and expanding ESA eligibility statewide.
- Making tutoring and choice-based summer camps permanent.
- Creating permanent direct payments to families for educational expenses.
- Removing roadblocks to career pathway programs.
- Defending accountability and transparency while providing parents access to information about all the ways their children are learning.

- Increasing the availability of high quality seat options across the Denver Metro Area and protecting Colorado’s charter approval system.
- Ensuring that tutoring programs and after-school learning programs are protected and track results.
- Providing direct aid to families to extend learning opportunities outside the classroom.
- Ensuring that student progress is measured and communicated to families and community about all the ways their children are learning.
- Removing roadblocks to career pathway programs.