This Giving Tuesday Support NPE

As giving Tuesday approaches, please give generously to NPE and help us advocate for the public schools that you love.

In 2020, on our shoestring budget, here is some of what we accomplished.

Important Investigations and Reports

• Broken Promises: This report is the first comprehensive examination of charter failure rates from 1999 to 2017. It documents that nearly 1 million schoolchildren were displaced when their charter school shut down.
• Our Report on Charter Schools’ Double Dip: We exposed how charter schools received both public school CARES Act funding and between $1-$2 billion in Payroll Protection Plan funding intended to save small businesses.
• Our Survey of Parents, Teachers and School Administrators: We recorded the effects of the transition to remote learning during the pandemic’s early days. That data was used by reporters and was published in The Washington Post Answer Sheet.

We Keep You and the General Public Informed

• Conversations with Diane Ravitch: Since the pandemic began, NPE President, Diane Ravitch, has engaged in compelling conversations with researchers and public education advocates from around the nation.
• NPE in the News: Whether it is an op-ed or a quote, The Network for Public Education has become a “go-to” source for public education advocacy. We have been featured in The Washington Post, the NY Post, The New York Times, the Daily News, EdWeek, NY Magazine, The Progressive, Common Dreams, and other news outlets. We are frequently guests on national and local radio shows.
• Another Day Another Charter Scandal: Our monthly logging of scandals associated with charter schools has become a source of information for public school advocates and reporters alike.

We Work in Coalitions

• The Keep the Promise Webpage: We recently brought together over 70 public education advocacy groups who are united in asking the new Administration to focus on five priorities when it comes to public education.
• The Grassroots Education Network: We work alongside 155 Grassroots pro-public education advocacy groups in 37 states and nationwide to support their mission and tell their stories.

We Get Policymakers’ Attention

Nearly 70,000 advocates took part in at least one of our actions so far in 2020. They wrote emails and/or called policymaker to advocate for public schools.

• Twelve thousand contacted Betsy DeVos to tell her to shut down the federal test mandate last spring.
• Over 15,000 New Yorkers used our action to contact Governor Cuomo to ask him to shut down in-person schooling when the virus began raging last March.

We do all of this on a modest budget with one full-time and two part-time employees. Just think of how much more we could do with your support.

The struggle continues. The work is not done. Please help NPE make 2021 our most impactful year ever by giving generously this holiday season.

Thank you for all you do!

Carol Burris

Executive Director