10/04/2018
Learn More About Your School — To Change It!
COFI/POWER-PAC IL, ACT Now, and Partners for Each and Every Child (a project of the Opportunity Institute) hosted more than 100 people in-person and online for sessions on the new information we can learn about Illinois schools — through the Illinois School Report learn more >
05/22/2018
Engaging around Local Planning in California — 5 Pillars
The Local Control Funding Formula:
Why Engagement is Essential for Educational Equity
The advancement of equity and excellence for California’s students depends on the ability of counties, districts, and schools to create meaningful stakeholder engagement practices that address the unique needs of their constituents.
This document offers actionable ways learn more >
05/22/2018
Process and Protest — California
How are Districts Engaging Stakeholders in LCAP Development?
Process and Protest — California examines the efforts of several California districts to fulfill the stakeholder engagement requirements of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in the development of their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs).
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Our analysis starts from the premise learn more >
07/25/2017
Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA: A Handbook for LEA and School Leaders
Read the Handbook!
Partners for and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) are excited to share our new resource: Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA: A Handbook for LEA and School Leaders.
As state ESSA plans are well underway and learn more >
07/11/2017
Process and Protest – Summer 2017 Report
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Have State Engagement Efforts Under ESSA Been Meaningful?
We are excited to share Process and Protest, a report exploring how thoughtful, meaningful, structured, and ongoing engagement among a variety of stakeholders is essential to learn more >
12/31/2016
The Partners for Network: Project Overview Booklet 
This document is a brief snapshot of the Partners for Network and how it works in our Anchor States and on our five clusters of issues. While not comprehensive, it is our hope that this document will help newcomers to the Partners for network to understand where learn more >
12/13/2016
Supports & Interventions in Illinois Schools: Participation, Preparation, and What Comes Next
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) has embraced both the requirement under ESSA and the spirit of intent that meaningful engagement with a range of stakeholders throughout the processes of policy planning and implementation is essential to ensure the best possible state level planning learn more >
12/11/2016
The District Guide to ESSA and the Importance of Meaningful Engagement: Participation, Preparation, and What Comes Next
Partners for and our state Partners have collaborated to produce A District Guide to ESSA and the Importance of Stakeholder Engagement – a guide to support districts and schools as they participate in state-level decision-making, and begin to prepare for what learn more >
12/06/2016
EngageforSchools.org
Engage For Schools is an online platform for stakeholders to engage in the education policy process. Initially used to support the Illinois State Board of Education in soliciting feedback on their State Plan, Partners for began testing out this new way of engaging with learn more >
Letters to US ED
In an effort to participate in state and national efforts around ESSA implementation, Partner for has made an effort to make both our opinion and our advice publicly available. To the extent useful, Partners for has taken several opportunities to submit formal comments.
To that end, learn more >
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